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The blogging phenomenon has caught the on-line world by surprise; the number of blogs doubles regularly and the number of daily blog entries seems to also continuously increase. Even more interestingly, blogs seem to compete with authoritative media outlets as a means for delivering news and opinions. The perceived power of blogs to inform and form...
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... also considered each blog individually to determine if they are good indicators of movie success on their own. Figure 2 shows the number of entries on each blog posted about each movie before its release versus its opening weekend gross. From the graph, we can see that Cinematical is the best blog to use as an indicator of opening gross as the number of entries increases with gross. ...
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... Tirapat et al. have a similar approach in revealing "buzz" in the blogosphere [22]. Their method uses information-retrieval techniques to associate blog entries with topics, collected by crawling an authoritative resource on this subject area. ...
It can be highly meaningful for individuals, institutions and even governments to extract reliable and insightful trends, opinions or particular pieces of information out of the network single web logs are embedded in - the blogo sphere. However, there has been virtually little in the way of user interfaces designed for the exploration and information gathering from the blogo sphere as a whole to allow for an integrated knowledge collection and information extraction tool. Users have to rely on their own capability to find, select or filter entries and navigate through this complex network, a task that can easily become tedious. An approach to solve this problem could be BLOGCONNECT presented in the following, a tool to visualize the inherent network characteristics of and the aggregated knowledge pool of the blogosphere.
... It can furthermore promote participation by highlighting 'the buzz' of popular topics (see also [22]) and laying out the structure of conversations (see also [30]). Tirapat et al. have a similar approach in revealing " buzz " in the blogosphere [28]. Their method uses information-retrieval techniques to associate blog entries to topics, collected by crawling an authoritative resource on this subject area. ...
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... However the number continued to grow to millions in 2006. The exponential growth of the blogs has attracted scholars to study its role and impact on the civilized society today (Tirapat, Espiritu and Stroulia, 2006, Stromer-Galley and Baker, 2006and Trammell, 2006. Technorati, a blog-tracking service found that, a new web log is created every second or about over 75,000 new blogs everyday. ...
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... Tirapat and colleagues [26] developed an interactive tool to examine whether there is a correlation between the success of a movie and the "buzz" in blogspace. They use document-clustering techniques to analyze blog entries and construct a topic map, capturing associations between movies and blog entries. ...
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... This study aimed to improve the classification of emotions from 22 blog posts. Tirapat et al. [16] studied on the relationship between the success of a movie and the "buzz" in blogosphere. They constituted a topic map by analyzing the blog posts capturing associations between movies and blog entries. ...
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