[listen] blog analysis

1. Defree of distribution

• WWW: Power Law Distribution
• Blog: Log-Normal distribution + Power Law distribution
• Social network: log-normal distribution

2. Small world property -> blog linkage like the six degree of seperation
3. Blog have many property between WWW and social network
4. Some tech using in the blog search: PageRank[98], HITS[99]
5. Community discovery:

• approach: a) mutual awarness. b) ranking-based clustering method
• emerge through the sustained action of individual bloggers, NOT the navigation of casual web surface.

6. Trend Extraction:

• sultion: statistic, SVD, HOSVD
• limitaion: aggregation, single trend, unstuctured data

7. Spam Blog Deection: relate to web spam detection.

• detection method: temporal coherence, link coherence

8. Some conference about this:

• www.icwsm.org