Weblogs have received attention as new, personalized media. Yet, only few of them attract public attention and become successful. This study explores weblog success factors in three categories: content creation, content features and content diffusion. During the process of content creation in weblogs, we argue that weblog service providers (WSPs) support bloggers’ resource collection. We also p...

World Wide Web is a hypertext based, distributed information system that provides access to vast amounts of information in the internet. A fundamental problem with the Web is the diiculty of retrieving speciic information of our interest, from the enormous number of resources that are available. In this paper, we develop a simple logic called WebLog that is capable of retrieving information fro...

Many social media platforms allow the user to provide profile information. This information is generally presented in a semi-structured manner either on a profile page or on the weblog home page itself. This paper describes a novel wrapper induction method that extracts profile data. Our ultimate goal is to estimate the geographic distribution of weblog authors and to that end we provide an ana...

Weblogs have become an influential form of Web publication and communication, with leading weblog sites attracting millions of visitors, and creating considerable media hype as well as commercial value. Yet, weblog success is not easily achieved, as some research suggests that following “powerlaw” with only few weblogs achieve very high level of readership while most weblogs garner little atten...

One of the most important Web-based services that established the foundations of the Web 2.0 is the weblog. Weblogs are evolving to be topic based systems that can lead to more revenue for companies. Therefore many companies provide free weblog hosting. Weblog popularity is an effective factor to gain more revenue. Weblogs have posts and topics that are arranged chronologically with the most re...

This short paper reports on initial experiments on the use of binary classifiers to distinguish affective states in weblog posts. Using a corpus of English weblog posts, annotated for mood by their authors, we trained support vector machine binary classifiers, and show that a typology of affective states proposed by Scherer’s et al is a good starting point for more

Unlike the early days of computering, our contemporary virtual lives are filled with rich graphics. However examination of many weblog sites revealed that most buttons (commands) were text based. Why so? This paper compared (quantitatively and qualitatively) the differences in usability between textbased interface and icon-based interface in weblog environment. In addition, this paper intended ...

In this paper, we present a Naı̈ve Bayes classification approach to identify genders of weblog authors. In addition to features employed in traditional text categorization, we use weblog-specific features such as web page background colors and emoticons. Our results in progress, although preliminary, outperform the chosen baseline. They also suggest room for significant improvement once more adv...

This article examines how weblog authors present their online gender identity, in order to establish how these modes of presentation fit into the research landscape about gender identity and computer-mediated communication (CMC). After a preliminary descriptive analysis of a sample of Dutch and Flemish weblogs, the authors conduct a qualitative content analysis of four of these ‘blogs’. They co...

Nach einer kurzen Erläuterung des Weblog-Konzepts werden Nutzungsszenarien von Weblogs und Teamlogs zur Unterstützung des persönlichen Wissensmanagements und zur Förderung von Communities of Practice erläutert. Darauf aufbauend beschreibt das Papier die Integration von Weblog-Funktionen in eine betriebliche Standardsoftware zum Wissensmanagement und diskutiert die dabei entstehenden interessant...