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1、QuantitiveandsociologicalanalysisofblognetworksWiktorBachnik,StanislawSzymczyk,PiotrLeszczynski,RafalPodsiadlo,EwaRymszewicz,LukaszKurylo(studentsofComputerScience,Gda´nskUniversity),DanutaMakowiec(InstituteofTheoreticalPhysicsandAstrophysics,Gda´nskUniversity),BeataBykowska(InstituteofPhi
2、losophyandSociology,Gda´nskUniversity)February2,2008AbstractThispaperexaminestheemergingphenomenonofblogging,usingthreedifferentPolishbloggingservicesasthebaseoftheresearch.Authorsshowthatblognetworksaresharingtheircharacteristicswithcomplexnetworks(γcoefficients,smallworlds,cliques,etc.).Ele
3、mentsofsocio-metricanalysiswereusedtoproveexistenceofsomesocialstructuresintheblognetworks.1Introduction1.1Blog–whatisit?Blog12isadiarypublishedontheauthor’swebsite.BecausetheInternetisusedasamedium,authorsfeelfreetoexpresstheiropinionsandviewsondifferentsubjects,withoutfearofcensorship.1.2
4、Howblognetworksarecreated?Asbloggingbecomesverypopular,manyinternetportalsoffer(mostlyfreeofarXiv:physics/0506051v1[physics.soc-ph]7Jun2005charge)bloggingfacilitiestotheircustomers.Thatcausesaggregationofblogsinone“place”,andencouragesbuildingcommunities.Bloggers(aswecallpeoplewhoruntheirbl
5、ogs)veryoftenplacehypertextlinkstotheirfriendsandcolleaguessharingsimilarviewsordescribingsimilarsubjects.Suchconnectionscreatewhatwecallblognetworkswhicharesubjectofourresearch.1http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html#Blog2http://www.blogger.com/tourstart.g11.3ExaminedbloggingservicesWe
6、examinedthreedifferentPolishbloggingservices:1.blog.onet.pl–oneofthemostpopularservices,about150,000registeredblogs2.blog.gery.pl–moderatelyknownservice,about15,000blogs3.jogger.pl–nicheservice,gatheringmostlytech-savvypeople,onlyaround1,500blogsItshouldnotedthatmanyofblogsmaybeabandonedbyt
7、heirauthorsandnolongerupdated.Theyarestillavailablehowever,andweretakenintotheaccount.2CollectingthedataWeusedstandardGNU/Linuxtoolstoautomateprocessofcollectingthedata:•text-modelynxbrowserfordownloadingthecontentofWWWpages•grepforfilteringoutunnecessaryinform
