In den vergangenen Jahren wurde die Entwicklung des World Wide Webs von einem Thema beherrscht: der Interaktivität (KAISER (2009), S. 379). Darunter wird das Mitgestalten von Web-Inhalten durch den Nutzer verstanden. Im Zuge dieser Entwicklung hat sich vor allem die Anzahl der Weblogs stark erhöht (WORDPRESS (2009)). Mit der Weblog-Suchmaschine Technorati beispielsweise ließen sich bereits letz...

Nowadays users of the Web are encouraged to generate content on the Web by themselves. In fact weblogs are one kind of social networks and they are one of the most important components in Web 2.0. There are a lot of Persian bloggers on the Web. In this paper we have tried to collect their blogs, produce some general statistics about them and have prepared a test bed for further research on webl...

According to Jill Walker, associate professor of humanistic informatics at the University of Bergen, a blog (short for "web log") "is a frequently updated website consisting of dated entries arranged in reverse chronological order so the most recent post appears first (see temporal ordering). Typically, weblogs are published by individuals and their style is personal and informal. Weblogs first...

In this paper, we describe a set of techniques that can be used to classify weblogs (blogs) by emotional content. Instead of using a general purpose emotional classification strategy, our technique aims to generate domain specific sentiment classifiers that can be used to determine the emotional state of weblogs in that domain.

As weblogs, in its nascent state, are becoming one of the most participated online activities after web surfing, email, and instant messaging, it has been considered more of a trend in net broadcasting than just a fad. The emergence of bloggers and their behavioral models has opened up new research opportunities in many perspectives. This article attempts are twofold; 1) demonstrate how weblogs...