This article provides a model for defining the weblog and differentiating between its manifestations. First we have the definition of the weblog based on the basic format-websites with posts in reverse-chronological order. Second we have audience, the division between those weblogs that deal with personal issues and expect an audience known to the author, and those that place themselves in the ...

Weblogs are web sites where one or several authors publish their opinions about current events. Even in Spain, there are several thousands, and it is often difficult to find a weblog that meets one's interest. Recommendation services thus become, if not a need, at least a convenience. In this paper we propose automatic extraction of association rules from the results of a survey as a means to r...

Nowadays, weblogs or blogs are important tools for personal or workgroup websites publication. These tools give the necessary performances to create, edit, evaluate, publish and file digital contents, in the framework of a standarized workflow, and for managing the digital information life cycle. Nevertheless, these tools must be complemented with existence of technical funcionalities necessary...

In order to perform analysis over weblogs, we must first identify the appropriate unit of a weblog that corresponds to a document. We argue in the paper that, for weblogs, the correct unit is the weblog post. A weblog post is a structured document with the following fields: date, timestamp, title, content, permalink and author. We present our approach for segmenting weblogs into posts, which br...

User generated content published via weblogs (also known as blogs) has gained importance in the last years, and the number of globally available weblogs increases. However, a large fraction of these show low publishing activity and are rarely read. This paper is a quantitative analysis of success factors in a community of over 15.000 weblogs, hosted by a local Austrian newspaper. We looked at p...

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...

In this paper, we propose the architecture for a weblog data mining system. Our objective is to allow users to interactively understand the blogspace by providing a system framework for retrieving relevant weblogs and obtaining highlighted information. We focus on two important technical components in the system. The first is weblog ranking. We introduce weighted link-based weblog ranking, whic...

Weblogs have recently gained considerable media attention. Leading weblog sites are already attracting millions of visitors. Yet, success in the highly competitive world of weblogs is not easily achieved. This study seeks to explore weblog success from a technology perspective, i.e. from the impact of weblog-building technology (or blogging tool). Based on an examination of 126 highly successfu...