Abstract
Blogging has become an important activity on the web; the number of web blogs is growing extremely fast, and thus this phenomenon cannot be ignored. This paper monitors a set of blogs for a two-month period in September-October 2003 and characterizes these blogs based on descriptive statistics and content analysis. We have chosen a set of 'topic-oriented' blogs, i.e. blogs whose purpose is to convey professional information. Our findings show that most of these blogs are excellent information hubs, i.e. provide short summaries (sometimes with a personal touch) with links to further information on major issues related to the topic of the blog.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 297-307 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Journal of Information Science |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2005 |
Keywords
- Bloggers
- Blogs
- Information dissemination
- Information hubs