A qualitative study of the motivating factors behind sustainable weblogs is presented, based on the dissection of group behavioural characteristics in the common practice of two niche interest music blogs. Preliminary observations suggest that the emerging business consumer demographic known as the “long tail” (Anderson, 2006) is at play in the ecology of the blogosphere.

Weblogs have emerged as a new communication and publication medium on the Internet for diffusing the latest useful information. Providing value-added mobile services, such as blog articles, is increasingly important to attract mobile users to mobile commerce, in order to benefit from the proliferation and convenience of using mobile devices to receive information any time and anywhere. However,...

Weblogs, their content and community structures, all live online. Bloggers, the topics they discuss and the resulting impact all have some manifestation in the physical world. This paper makes an initial investigation into the ways in which these two spaces can be connected and how that connection can be understood via the integration of weblog mining systems and geographical information systems.

While using the Web can be viewed nowadays as a new platform for delivery of course materials, there are still many educators who look to the Web as a replacement for their current teaching methods. This paper sought to investigate students' perceptions towards an interactive web-based learning environment, which consisted of using multimedia-mediated web-based learning modules, created based o...

Online learning environments (OLEs) are now critical to teaching and learning across Australian higher education. Their influence impacts on the availability of content, the design of courses and, perhaps most pedagogically significantly, the nature of communication. The discussion board is the ubiquitous communication tool within these OLEs and hence significantly shapes the kind of communicat...

Web clustering is an approach for aggregating web objects into various groups according to underlying relationships among them. Finding co-clusters of web objects in semantic space is an interesting topic in the context of web usage mining, which is able to capture the underlying user navigational interest and content preference simultaneously. In this paper we will present a novel web co-clust...

Online weblogs and journals developed by people affected by illness are popular vehicles for personal expression and peer emotional support. These sites can also offer insight to healthcare providers about patient opinions, habits and actions. These same media can also be effective and efficient tools for exchanging information between patients, providers, or between a patient and his/her provi...

In traditionellen Seminaren ist es schwierig, Studierende zur aktiven, selbstbestimmten Beschäftigung mit den Inhalten außerhalb der wöchentlichen Seminarsitzungen zu bewegen. In diesem Artikel wird vorgeschlagen, Seminare durch eine virtuelle Weblog-Umgebung zu ergänzen. Studierende lernen aktiv und selbstbestimmt unter Verwendung von Weblogs und kommunizieren über RSSFeeds. Die Motivierung de...