Professional Reading Shelf
Weblogs
Source: Dr. Gilad Mishne
New Research Paper (DRAFT): Large Scale Study Looks at Comments Posted on Weblogs (8 pages; PDF)
This time the prolific Dr. Gilad Mishne from the University of Amsterdam and Natalie Glance from Buzzmetrics have written (what we're linking to is a draft) about their research into commentary left on weblogs. This paper will be presented at a blogging ecosystem workshop during the WWW2006 conference next month. We've posted several other new papers by Dr. Mishne here and here during the past couple of months including one focused on blog search.
Here's the abstract from the blog commentary paper: "Access to weblogs, both through commercial services and in academic studies, is usually limited to the content of the weblog posts. This overlooks an important aspect distinguishing weblogs from other web pages: the ability of weblog readers to respond to posts directly, by posting comments. In this paper we present a large-scale study of weblog comments and their relation to the posts. Using a sizable corpus of comments, we estimate the overall volume of comments in the blogosphere; analyze the relation between the weblog popularity and commenting patterns in it; and measure the contribution of comment content to various aspects of weblog access."
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Information Science
Library Science
Source: IR The April 2006 Issue of Information Research is Now Online
Articles Include:
+ Use of information sources by cancer patients: results of a systematic review of the research literature
+ No bad web pages: reader empowerment and the Web
+ The complementary relationship between the Internet and traditional mass media: the case of online news and information.
+ Book Review: Ran Hock's Yahoo! to the max: an extreme searcher guide
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Digital Libraries
Source: JCDL
Now Available: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Program
The conference is scheduled to take place in Chapel Hill, NC, in June. Look for some of the conference papers to be posted on ResourceShelf.
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