Part I Understanding the Blogosphere |
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1 Introduction: The Blogosphere |
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3 | (10) |
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1.1 Origins of Social Network Research |
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3 | (1) |
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1.2 From the Web to the Social Web |
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4 | (1) |
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1.3 Dimensions of Web 2.0 |
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4 | (3) |
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7 | (2) |
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1.5 Publishing Revolution or Utopian Fallacy |
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9 | (1) |
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1.6 Weblogs vs Facebook, Twitter & Co. |
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10 | (3) |
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2.1 Weblogs: The Smallest Entities of the Blogosphere |
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13 | (1) |
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2.2 Blogging Software and Platforms |
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13 | (2) |
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2.3 Hosting Issues of Blogging |
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15 | (2) |
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17 | (1) |
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2.5 Blog Typology: Classification |
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18 | (7) |
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2.5.1 Classification by Genre/Content |
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18 | (1) |
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2.5.2 Classification by Author(s) |
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19 | (3) |
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2.5.3 Classification by Information Flow |
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22 | (1) |
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2.5.4 Hybrid Forms of Classification |
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22 | (2) |
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2.5.5 Weblog Typology: Conclusion |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (12) |
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25 | (1) |
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26 | (5) |
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27 | (1) |
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3.2.2 The Pareto or Zipfian Distribution |
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28 | (1) |
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3.2.3 The Long Tail of Blogging |
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28 | (1) |
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29 | (2) |
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3.3 Disruptive Technologies: Changing the Rules of the Game |
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31 | (6) |
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3.3.1 Failure Framework by Christensen |
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32 | (2) |
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3.3.2 The Disruptive Character of the Web 2.0 and Weblogs |
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34 | (3) |
Part II The Continents of the Blogosphere |
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4 Overview of the Continents of the Blogosphere |
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37 | (2) |
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38 | (1) |
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38 | (1) |
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5 Continent of Docu-Blogs Use Case: The IT-Gipfelblog |
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5.1 Politics and the Blogosphere |
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40 | (2) |
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42 | (1) |
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5.3 Blogs: Means of Expression for Direct Democratic Politics |
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43 | (1) |
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5.4 Quality Management and User Control |
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43 | (1) |
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5.5 Continuous Adaptation |
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44 | (1) |
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5.6 Typologisation of a Docu-Blog |
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45 | (1) |
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5.7 The Contentual Development |
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46 | (1) |
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5.8 The Influence of External Factors on Pageviews |
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46 | (2) |
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48 | (1) |
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6 Continent of Edu-Blogs Use Case: InternetWorking Blog and openHPl |
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49 | (8) |
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6.1 Massive Open Online Courses |
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49 | (2) |
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6.2 Supporting Cooperative Social Learning |
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51 | (2) |
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6.2.1 Connecting Learners of MOOCs |
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52 | (1) |
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6.2.2 Social Interaction in MOOCs |
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52 | (1) |
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6.3 Use Case: InternetWorking-Blog |
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53 | (4) |
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7 Continent of Ego-Blogs: Use Case - svenblogt.de |
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57 | (4) |
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57 | (2) |
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59 | (1) |
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59 | (1) |
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59 | (2) |
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8 Continent of Corporate-Blogs: Use Case - SAP Blog |
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61 | (14) |
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8.1 The Corporate Internal Communications Perspective |
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61 | (1) |
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8.2 Deployment of Corporate Weblogs |
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62 | (1) |
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63 | (1) |
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8.4 Point of View (POV) Platform |
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64 | (6) |
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8.4.1 POV: Scope and Motivation |
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65 | (1) |
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8.4.2 Configuration of the Standardized to Fit Corporate Requirements |
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65 | (2) |
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8.4.3 Who Are You Really? |
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67 | (1) |
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8.4.4 Seamless Integration |
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68 | (1) |
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8.4.5 Meeting Enterprise Standards |
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69 | (1) |
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8.5 Proof of Concept and Outlook |
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70 | (5) |
Part III The Explorer's Path Through the Blogosphere |
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9 The Challenge of Exploring the Blogosphere |
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75 | (4) |
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76 | (1) |
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77 | (6) |
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9.2.1 New Application Areas |
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77 | (2) |
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10 Towards an Exploration Machine for the Blogosphere |
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79 | (4) |
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83 | (18) |
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84 | (1) |
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11.2 Information Elements of Interest |
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84 | (2) |
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11.3 Implementation Details |
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86 | (3) |
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89 | (6) |
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11.4.1 Identification of Blogrolls |
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89 | (1) |
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11.4.2 Identification of Trackbacks |
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90 | (1) |
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11.4.3 Reliability of Feedparsing |
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90 | (1) |
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11.4.4 Language Detection |
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91 | (1) |
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91 | (1) |
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92 | (1) |
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93 | (1) |
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11.4.8 Matching of Twitter Accounts |
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93 | (2) |
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11.5 Crawler Performance Summary |
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95 | (6) |
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101 | (34) |
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101 | (4) |
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102 | (2) |
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104 | (1) |
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12.2 Clustering the Blogosphere |
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105 | (7) |
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12.2.1 Step 1: Data Extraction |
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105 | (1) |
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12.2.2 Step 2: Data Preparation |
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106 | (1) |
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12.2.3 Step 3: Data Aggregation |
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107 | (1) |
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12.2.4 Step 4: Data Classification |
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107 | (4) |
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12.2.5 Step 5: Calculation of Coordinates |
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111 | (1) |
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12.2.6 Step 6: Visualization |
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112 | (1) |
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12.3 Ranking the Blogosphere |
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113 | (3) |
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12.3.2 Discussion of Ranking Criteria |
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116 | (5) |
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12.3.3 Analysis of Existing Blog-Ranking Services |
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121 | (4) |
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125 | (6) |
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12.3.5 Implementation and Validation |
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131 | (3) |
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134 | (1) |
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134 | (1) |
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135 | (26) |
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136 | (1) |
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137 | (7) |
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13.2.1 Implementation of PostConnect |
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137 | (2) |
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13.2.2 Visualization of PostConnect |
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139 | (4) |
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13.2.3 Final Remarks About PostConnect |
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143 | (1) |
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144 | (9) |
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13.3.1 Visualization of BlogConnect |
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145 | (3) |
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13.3.2 Implementation of BlogConnect |
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148 | (4) |
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13.3.3 Final Remarks About BlogConnect |
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152 | (1) |
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153 | (4) |
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153 | (3) |
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156 | (1) |
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156 | (1) |
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13.5 Information Spreading |
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157 | (4) |
Part IV The Nautilus of the Blogosphere: BLOGINTELLIGENCE |
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14 The BLOGINTELLIGENCE Portal |
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161 | (10) |
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14.1 Search and Custom Ranking |
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161 | (3) |
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14.2 Visual Exploration Tools |
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164 | (7) |
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164 | (2) |
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166 | (1) |
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167 | (4) |
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15 Analyzing and Forecasting Trends |
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171 | (40) |
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172 | (2) |
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15.2 Trend Detection Preparation |
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174 | (8) |
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174 | (2) |
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176 | (1) |
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177 | (1) |
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178 | (2) |
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180 | (2) |
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15.3 Trend Detection Algorithm |
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182 | (8) |
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183 | (1) |
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184 | (1) |
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185 | (2) |
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187 | (1) |
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188 | (2) |
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15.4 Trend Detection Evaluation |
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15.4.1 Dataset for Evaluation |
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190 | (1) |
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15.4.2 Trend Detection Preparation |
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191 | (4) |
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15.4.3 Trend Detection Algorithm |
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195 | (9) |
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204 | (1) |
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205 | (1) |
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15.5 Trend Detection Vision |
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206 | (2) |
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206 | (1) |
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15.5.2 Sentiment Analysis |
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207 | (1) |
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207 | (1) |
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208 | (1) |
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208 | (1) |
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15.6 Trend Detection Final Remarks |
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208 | (3) |
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16 Judging Consistency and Expertise of Blogs |
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211 | (30) |
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213 | (3) |
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213 | (1) |
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16.1.2 Blog-Specific Rankings |
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214 | (1) |
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16.1.3 Consistency-Related Rankings |
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214 | (2) |
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16.2 Definition of the Topic Consistency Metric |
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216 | (7) |
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16.2.1 Consistency Between Posts (Inter-post) |
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216 | (3) |
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16.2.2 Internal Consistency of Posts (Intra-post) |
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219 | (1) |
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16.2.3 Consistency Between Posts and Classification (Intra-blog) |
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220 | (1) |
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16.2.4 Consistency of Linking and Linked Blogs (Inter-blog) |
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221 | (1) |
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16.2.5 Combined Topic Consistency Rank |
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222 | (1) |
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16.3 Implementation of Topic Detection |
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223 | (2) |
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225 | (1) |
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16.4 Implementation of the Topic-Consistency Rank |
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225 | (4) |
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16.4.1 Intra-post Consistency |
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226 | (1) |
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16.4.2 Inter-post Consistency |
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226 | (1) |
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16.4.3 Intra-blog Consistency |
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227 | (1) |
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16.4.4 Inter-blog Consistency |
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227 | (1) |
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228 | (1) |
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16.5 Consistency Rank Evaluation |
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229 | (7) |
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16.5.1 Experimental Setup |
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229 | (1) |
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16.5.3 Results of the Topic Consistency Sub Ranks |
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231 | (2) |
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16.5.4 Comparison of BIIMPACT and Combined Topic Consistency Rank |
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233 | (3) |
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16.6 Consistency Rank Future Research |
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236 | (3) |
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16.6.1 Enhanced Topic Detection |
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236 | (1) |
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237 | (2) |
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16.7 Consistency Rank Final Remarks |
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239 | (2) |
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17 Vision of the Blogosphere and Its Exploration |
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241 | (6) |
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17.1 Influence of the Blogosphere and Expected Growth |
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241 | (1) |
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242 | (1) |
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243 | (1) |
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17.4 Visualization and Provision |
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244 | (2) |
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245 | (1) |
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17.5 BLOGINTELLIGENCE Outlook |
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246 | (1) |
Bibliography |
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Index |
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