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An outsider's view on "topic-oriented blogging"

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WWW Alt. '04: Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters

Pages 28 - 34

https://doi.org/10.1145/1013367.1013373

Published: 19 May 2004 Publication History

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The number of Web blogs is growing extremely fast, thus this phenomenon cannot be ignored. This paper discusses the issue through monitoring a set of blogs for a two months period in September-October 2003 and characterizing these blogs based on descriptive statistics and content analysis.

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