Via John Battelle, Gilad Mishne at the Intelligent Systems Lab, University of Amsterdam has released a paper on blogs. From the abstract:
This paper discusses the blogging phenomenon from an information access point of view. We examine blogs as a source of knowledge, analyzing the properties which make them unique as a data collection. We outline information analysis tasks aimed at blogs, and discuss how the properties of blogs are used in this context; finally, we point out some of the main aims of current computational blog research.
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