Blogosphere and its Exploration
This book represents an attempt to fully review the phenomenon of the blogosphere. The intention is to provide a reliable guide to understanding and analyzing the world of the unimaginable number of diverse blogs, each consisting of innumerable posts, whi
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logosphere and its Exploration
Blogosphere and its Exploration
Christoph Meinel • Justus Broß • Philipp Berger • Patrick Hennig
Blogosphere and its Exploration
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Christoph Meinel Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering Potsdam Germany
Justus Broß Hasso-Plattner Insitute Potsdam Brandenburg Germany
Philipp Berger Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam Brandenburg Germany
Patrick Hennig Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam Brandenburg Germany
ISBN 978-3-662-44408-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-44409-2
ISBN 978-3-662-44409-2 (eBook)
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Preface
The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people. Tim Berners-Lee [BL09], known as the Inventor of the World Wide Web
With an immensecirculation of more than 200 million Weblogs worldwide, there are many good reasons for a closer consideration of the (Web)blog phenomenon. In fact, blogs provide one of the most important human-centric applications in the World Wide Web. Blogs can be accessed and read by anybody with access to the Internet without any prior registration process and almost everybody has the opportunity to create and write his or her own blog and share experiences and opinions with the rest of the world. In this way, a completely new channel has been created to support freedom of expression and foster its potential around the world. The result is a wide array of meaningful discourse on all areas of life within blogs and between blogs manifested in so-called blog posts. Given the high level of participation and volume of information, it is of great interest and benefit to identify what is going on in this vibrant world of blogs we call the blogosphere. Increasingly, it is crucial to consid
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