Characteristics Of Blogs Research Articles

Comparison of gender differences in young people’s blog interface preferences and designs

Besides usability, visual aesthetics also strongly influence whether users will continue to trust and use a website. This study examined blogs to determine whether a correlation exists between the gender and visual preferences of young people toward blog interfaces. Few research on gender differences in visual preferences for blog interfaces have been published. Therefore the goal of this research is to determine the different design features of blog interfaces preferred by males and females. Using two Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) algorithms, ALSCAL and PREFMAP analysis, the perceptual space of user blog interface preferences was plotted to explore the hidden perceptual configuration of users as well as examine gender related ideal points.The results showed four typical blog interfaces and three dimensions that affected user preference and the spatial distribution of ideal preference point for each user. Last, gender differences in the blog interface preference of young people were discussed and guidelines were recommended for developers. The results are applicable to blog interface customization in digital device displays.

O blog como ferramenta de comunicação entre a biblioteca e seus usuários: a experiência da biblioteca Lydio Bandeira de Mello, da Faculdade de direito da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

This paper explains how the blog Bibliojurídica can work as a tool of communication between Biblioteca Lydio Bandeira de Mello, UFMG’s Law School’s library, and its users. It defines the concept of Web 2.0 and describes the history, definitions, typology and key features of blogs. It characterizes and defines legal information and presents the institution for which the blog was created. It demonstrates the importance and functions of the library blog as a dynamic resource for disseminating information and as a space for interaction with users. It describes the methodological procedures used in the construction of Bibliojurídica, such as objectives, content, links, technological resources, software and divulgation. Access statistics and comments posted on the blog suggest results of its installation were very positive. This paper concludes that the blog has achieved its goals: it works as a resource for disseminating library products and services, helping to improve communication between the library and its users.

O blog como ferramenta de comunicação entre a biblioteca e seus usuários: a experiência da biblioteca Lydio Bandeira de Mello, da Faculdade de direito da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Apresenta o blog Bibliojurídica como uma ferramenta de comunicação entre a Biblioteca Lydio Bandeira de Mello da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais e seus usuários. Conceitua Web 2.0 e descreve o histórico, as definições, a tipologia e as principais características dos blogs. Caracteriza e define informação jurídica e apresenta a instituição para qual o blog foi criado. Demonstra a importância e funções do blog na biblioteca como recurso dinâmico de disseminação de informação e espaço de interação com os usuários. Descreve os procedimentos metodológicos utilizados na construção do Bibliojurídica, tais como objetivos, conteúdo, links, recursos tecnológicos, software e divulgação. Os resultados da sua implantação foram bastante positivos, diante das estatísticas de acesso e dos comentários postados. Conclui-se que o blog atendeu aos objetivos propostos e está sendo utilizado como um recurso de divulgação de produtos e serviços da biblioteca, contribuindo para melhorar a comunicação entre a mesma e seus usuários.

패션블로그의 특성이 몰입, 만족 및 구전의도에 미치는 영향

This study is to understand the effects of fashion blog features on commitment, satisfaction, and Word-of-Mouth intention due to the interest shown by fashion companies on fashion blogs as new marketing communication strategies. The survey was conducted from April <TEX>$23^{rd}$</TEX> to May <TEX>$2^{nd}$</TEX>, 2011 and all 300 respondents had visited fashion blogs. The results of this study are described below. First, the study finds that fashion blog features have five dimensions; interactivity, information reliability, convenience of information access, reputation, and intimacy. Commitment consists of behavioral commitment and emotional commitment, and satisfaction consists of two dimensions; information satisfaction and usage satisfaction. Second, behavioral commitment, is positively influenced by all fashion blog features (except for the negative effect on interactivity). Blog features have a positive impact on emotional commitment (except for negative impact on reputation). Third, information satisfaction is influenced by all fashion blog features; however, usage satisfaction is influenced only by interactivity, reputation, and intimacy. Fourth, Word-of-Mouth intention is influenced by all commitment and satisfaction dimensions. The results of this study will help fashion companies use fashion blogs as marketing communication tools.

A Study on the Types and Characteristics of Fashion-Related Blogs

Social media which support to share information and communicate between online users have recently won great popularity. Of the various social services, blogs have played an active role as a community in sharing, delivering and exchanging information among individual users who have share similar opinions, hobbies and preferences. Based on this cultural phenomenon, some companies often take advantage of blogs as a marketing tool to strengthen their public relations or deliver particular information to their costumer this study is designed to classy fashion-related blogs and define the characteristics of each type, expecting significant influences on fissure studies on this topic. We selected 50 fashion-related blogs as subjects, including 25 Korean blogs and the same number of international blogs, defined their characteristics and classified them into four different types. As the result, we found that there are apparent differences between the four types of blogs:

Promoting Wine on the Internet

This study examines the content of Portuguese wine blogs and addresses two main questions: (i) which content and design elements of Portuguese wine blogs have more impact on the promotion of wine, and (ii) how can the content and design quality of wine blogs be assessed and improved. To answer these questions, a number of features of wine blogs are examined, and an initial attempt is made to describe the profile, uses and practices of Portuguese wine bloggers. Strong correlations were found between performance measures (posts, comments and traffic). In addition, it was found that one of the main marketing features that bloggers can offer was in rating wines. On the other hand, presentation features were found to account for very little regarding the performance of the blog. Finally, accessibility features, such as cross-references and RSS/Feeds that tend to increase blog traffic, are only used by a minority of Portuguese bloggers.

Mulheres na rede: características da “conversa de salão” do blog Mão Feita

This paper aims to show some characteristics of female blogs based on the blog Mão Feita, a website about nail polish, written by women and created in 2008. Some concepts and characteristics of Computer-Mediated Communication and blogs are discussed in this article and they are the foundation of this analysis. It is possible to characterize the object as a Mixed Publication (Recuero, 2003) and as a fashion blog (Hinerasky, 2010) with commercial purpose and evidences that indicate professionalism. The article analyzes the interaction between bloggers and readers, the relationship of support and empathy among users and other characteristics of the blog Mão Feita may represent the female discourse in the Internet. Some female issues are also discussed: discursive fragments suggest the demarcation of a feminine place in this blog, where a “beauty salon talk” happens.

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BioTechniquesVol. 51, No. 3 WebWatchOpen AccessWebWatchKevin AhernKevin AhernSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:3 Apr 2018https://doi.org/10.2144/000113730AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail Getting PersonalThe advent of rapid, relatively inexpensive genomic sequencing methods has catalyzed the arrival of the personal genome era—and with it, a number of accompanying issues of privacy, data storage, and clinical import. Tracking popular insight on this important topic is The Personal Genome web site. Stewarded by Personal Genome Project Executive Director Jason Bobe, the blog features documentary videos, essays, and other provocative thoughts offering important perspectives of the use of genomic information. Archives date back to 2003.[http://thepersonalgenome.com]Rose ParadeThe delight of gardeners and the symbol of lovers, roses are an integral part of our culture and have long had the attention of plant breeders worldwide. This diversity of species is well-cataloged at www.EveryRose.com, which documents over 7500 varieties with 2700 accompanying photos. Visitors can search the online database to identify roses by a number of criteria, including color, classification, flower shape, size, habitat, fragrance, and more. A companion database links searchers with suppliers. They can use the site to locate rose gardens, read creative writing about roses, and locate clubs, as well.[www.everyrose.com]The “Hot Cocoa” rose (2001 T. Carruth, Russet floribunda).© 2004 Trevor Inkpen, www.everyrose.com.Stimulating SimulationChemistry lends itself well to the use of computer simulations to illustrate basic concepts. The Chemistry Education Research Group, led by professor Tom Greenbowe of Iowa State University's Department of Chemistry, has assembled an impressive array of downloadable simulations covering all manner of general chemistry principles. Topic areas include product prediction, kinetics, stoichiometry, acid-base equilibria, solutions, thermochemistry, gas laws, and electrochemistry. Animations, tutorials, and simulations are abundant; users will want to update their Flash and other browser plug-ins, as they are needed in force.[www.chem.iastate.edu/group/Greenbowe/sections/projectfolder/simDownload/index4.html]Stress Address“Coping with plant environmental stress is the foundation of sustainable agriculture,” proclaims the byline of the informative Plantstress site. With a substantial catalog of news and related articles, these folks are in a prime position to make such a statement. Focused on agricultural methods and the green revolution, the site lists a number of abiotic stresses endured by plants—including drought, salinity, oxidative, heat, cold, water-logging, mineral deficiency, and mineral toxicity—along with techniques for mitigation. Contributions are from a number of worldwide experts, and news on the opening page is timely. Other sections of the site connect researchers with methods, presentations, references, and even each other.[www.plantstress.com]Deceptive AdvertisingmiRNAs perform critical post-translational regulation of at least one third of mammalian genes, and the sequence specificity of the interaction of miRNAs and their target genes is both a boon and a bane for regulation. Aiming to identify other potential miRNA-affected genes is the focus of a novel database known as Patrocles. Assembled using data from publicly accessible databases and scientific literature, Patrocles maps potential genes/probes with genomic coordinates relevant to the appropriate species (human, chimpanzee, rat, dog, cow, or chicken). Over 10,000 putative DNA sequence polymorphisms (DSPs) that might influence miRNA-mediated regulation have been identified for humans alone.[www.patrocles.org]Flower PowerWith the evolution of angiosperms and their flowers came beautiful displays, instruments of economic importance (think fruit production and seed dispersal), and evolving insect species to service them. Indeed, the coevolution of insects and flowers is a well-studied biological phenomenon. Understanding the biochemistry that gave rise to flowers is important from the perspectives of botany, commerce, food production, and molecular evolution. It also provides a focus for the Floral Genome Project, hosted by Penn State University. At the project's web site, visitors can download cDNA library data from over 20 species of angiosperms from which the most flower diversity is found. They can also request clones, access methods, view chronologically organized publications, and undertake sophisticated sequence searches.[http://fgp.bio.psu.edu]FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Vol. 51, No. 3 Follow us on social media for the latest updates Metrics Downloaded 85 times History Published online 3 April 2018 Published in print September 2011 Information© 2011 Author(s)PDF download

Discovering influencers for marketing in the blogosphere

Discovering influential bloggers will not only allow us to understand better the social activities taking place in the blogosphere, but will also provide unique opportunities for sales and advertising. In this paper, we develop an MIV (marketing influential value) model to evaluate the influential strength and identify the influential bloggers in the blogosphere. We analyze three dimensions of blog characteristics (network-based, content-based, and activeness-based factors) and utilize an artificial neural network (ANN) to discover potential bloggers. Based on peer and official evaluations, the experimental results show that the proposed framework outperforms two social-network-based methods (out-degree and betweenness centrality algorithms) and two content-based mechanisms (review rating and popular author approaches). The proposed framework can be effectively applied to support marketers or advertisers in promoting their products or services.

Influence detection between blog posts through blog features, content analysis, and community identity

PurposeThis study aims to investigate three common approaches – quantitative blog features analysis, content analysis, and community identification – to detect influence in the blogosphere (i.e. among blog posts).Design/methodology/approachQuantitative analysis of blog features, together with manual sentiment and agreement analysis and community identification, were performed on blog postings and their content. Correlation studies of the selected influential variables were conducted to determine the effectiveness of each variable.FindingsAgreement expressed by the linking blogger with the linked blogger, similar sentiments expressed by both bloggers on common topics, and community identity are statistically significant features for detecting influence in the linked blogs.Research limitations/implicationsA small data set of 196 blog posting pairs was used for the study as the blog features and content are analysed manually. Nonetheless statistical analysis on the data set identified significant features that could be used in future studies to automate the influence detection process.Practical implicationsKnowing the effects of blog features and content analysis in detecting influence among blog posts allows a better influence detection method to determine the main chain of information propagation within the blogosphere and the identities of influential bloggers.Originality/valueThe approach of using blog features, content analysis, and community identity provides a comprehensive evaluation of influence in the blogosphere. Unlike previous content analysis approaches that measure document similarity (i.e. common terms) between linked blog posts, our study applies sentiment and agreement analysis to consider the context of the whole blog post content.

Variation in Health Blog Features and Elements by Gender, Occupation, and Perspective

This study explores whether there are gender and occupational differences in the health blogosphere and whether there are differences by blogger perspective. Data were derived from content analysis of 951 health blogs identified between June 2007 and May 2008. Results indicate that male, physician bloggers were more likely to have blogs that feature a SiteMeter, sponsorship, and advertising, which also were more prevalent among those blogging from a professional perspective. Women, bloggers in non–health-related employment, and patient/consumer and caregiver bloggers were more likely to blog about disease and disability; men, bloggers in health-related employment, and professional bloggers were more likely to blog about provider experiences, health research/news, and health policy, business, law, and technology. Because the Internet is becoming a primary source of health information, establishing normative guidelines regarding information quality, patient privacy, and conflicts of interest is essential. Future research should build on these findings using national surveys of health bloggers and textual analysis of blog content.

Professional Boundaries in the Era of the Internet

The era of the Internet presents new dilemmas in educating psychiatrists about professional boundaries. The objective of this overview is to clarify those dilemmas and offer recommendations for dealing with them. The characteristics of social networking sites, blogs, and search engines are reviewed with a specific focus on their potential to present problems of professional boundaries for psychiatrists. The professional boundary questions that have arisen in the expanded world of online communication can be subdivided into three areas: ethical concerns, professionalism issues, and clinical dilemmas. Only the first category involves true boundary problems as normally defined. The expansion of the Internet has redefined traditional areas of privacy and anonymity in the clinical setting. Guidelines are proposed to manage the alteration of professional boundaries, as well as issues of professionalism and clinical work, that have arisen from the complexities of cyberspace. The author discusses implications for residency training.

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Clustering of Blogs with Enhanced Semantics

Blogs are among the fastest growing space among the user generated content over the internet. It is fast becoming the tool for information dissemination, and communication. Blogs provide a platform for information sharing, discussions, and expression of reader‘s reactions to the blog post. Clustering of blogs greatly simplify blog searching and browsing by organizing them into similar groups. The Blogs are generally organized using tags. In this paper, we have studied the effect of considering other relevant neighborhood contexts and adding the extracted information to the original tag set carried by the blog. The added semantics is extracted by disambiguating all the synsets for the important terms/ or key phrases within the blog. This work reports the study of measuring similarity, on enhanced blog features and subsequently grouping of all blog articles based on the semantics of the tags they carry. We propose to include the semantics extracted from the title, body, and comments of a blog post to its original tagset in clustering blog documents and evaluate the hypothesis that adding extracted semantics from these blog constituents improves the cluster quality. For clustering k-means algorithm is used. The experimental results obtained confirm our hypothesis that adding the semantics improves better clusters. The approach first extracts the relevant features from the target blog corpus, title and comments. The other senses represented by the relevant keywords are discovered by using a general purpose semantics extractor. All the synsets of the relevant keywords are extracted from the WORDNET. The extracted keyword senses are then appended to the base tagsets. A semantic similarity measure is used for computing the semantic similarity among the documents. Clusters are obtained based on it. The two clusters output are compared. General Terms Clustering, blog mining, blog, text mining, semantic similarity

블로그 검색 성능 향상을 위한 주제-랭크 기법

1인 미디어인 블로그에 대한 관심이 증가함에 따라, 블로그 검색과 관련된 다양한 랭킹 알고리즘들이 제안되었다. 이러한 알고리즘들은 블로그가 웹 페이지와 다르게 갖는 구조적 특징에 맞게 변형되었으며, 각 블로그간의 연결이나, 댓글, 트랙백들을 통해 이루어진 상호소통 속에서 나타난 결과들을 바탕으로 블로그의 평판이나 인기도를 수치화하여 검색 시스템에 반영한다. 하지만 실제 블로그 검색에서는 블로그 자체의 랭크뿐만 아니라 검색어와 블로그 글과의 적합성과시간등의요소를복합적으로사용하게된다. 그런데기존에알려진요소만으로는검색결과의품질이낮을수 있다. 본 논문에서는 블로그의 주제와 관련도가 가장 높은 블로그를 찾아 낼 수 있는 주제-랭크 기법을 제안한다. 이 기법은 블로그와 블로그 글의 색인어뿐만 아니라, 블로그 글을 대표하는 주제와의 관계까지 랭킹을 매기는 방법이다. 제안된 기법을 통해 블로그 검색에서 검색어와 블로그의 연관성에 따라 랭킹을 효과적으로 부여할 수 있다. 본 논문 제안하는 주제-랭크 기법을 적용한 블로그 검색 시스템의 정확률과 적용률을 국내의 다른 블로그 검색 시스템들과 비교해 본 결과, 주제-랭크 기법을 사용한 블로그 검색 시스템의 성능이 타 시스템에 비해 더 우수함을 알 수 있었다. As people have heightened attention to blogs that are individual media, a variety rank algorithms was proposed for the blog search. These algorithms was modified for structural features of blogs that differ from typical web sites, and measured blogs' reputations or popularities based on the interaction results like links, comments or trackbacks and reflected in the search system. But actual blog search systems use not only blog-ranks but also search words, a time factor and so on. Nevertheless, those might not produce desirable results. In this paper, we suggest a topic-rank technique, which can find blogs that have significant degrees of association with topics. This technique is a method which ranks the relations between blogs and indexed words of blog posts as well as the topics representing blog posts. The blog rankings of correlations with search words are can be effectively computed in the blog retrieval by the proposed technique. After comparing precisions and coverage ratios of our blog retrieval system which applis our proposed topic-rank technique, we know that the performance of the blog retrieval system using topic-rank technique is more effective than others.

Use of blogs by pharmacists

The characteristics of pharmacist blogs were examined. Internet search engines, blog aggregators, and blog rolls were used to identify pharmacist blogs. Six categories were developed to evaluate blogs, including practice-based topics, identifying information, positive language, critical language, professionalism, and miscellaneous. The most recent five posts on each pharmacist blog were reviewed. Descriptive statistics were used to characterize the results. A total of 117 blogs were identified, 44 of which were designated as pharmacist blogs. No blogs contained patient-identifying information. Anonymity was maintained by 68.2% of bloggers. Bloggers practiced in community (43.1%) and noncommunity (43.1%) settings. Pharmacists most commonly used positive language to describe the profession (32%), other health care professionals (25%), and patients (25%). The highest rates of critical language were found in descriptions of patients (57%) and other health care professionals (44%). Almost half of pharmacist blogs contained explicit or unprofessional language. Overall, community practitioner blogs were substantially more likely than noncommunity practitioner blogs to use unprofessional and critical language. Twenty-five percent of pharmacist bloggers also maintained a microblog (e.g., Twitter) account. A search using Internet search engines, blog aggregators, and blog rolls identified 117 blogs, 44 of which met the study criteria for designation as pharmacist blogs. The majority of pharmacist blogs included some type of discussion of pharmacologic therapies. Pharmacists most commonly used positive language to describe the profession, other health care professionals, and patients. The highest rates of critical language were found in descriptions of patients and other health care professionals.

Blended learning using video-based blogs: Public speaking for English as a second language students

&lt;span&gt;With globalisation and the advent of information technology, the English language has become more important for second language (L2) learners. This study aimed to establish a blended teaching and learning model combining online and face to face instructional blogging for an English for specific purposes (ESP) course named &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;English Public Speaking&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;. The research methodology combined qualitative and quantitative approaches and included peer and instructor feedback, interviews, self-reflection, and a learning satisfaction survey. A total of 44 college seniors majoring in English participated in the study. The results of the study showed that this model could contribute to learning effectiveness and student satisfaction if the blended model is implemented with sufficiently supportive equipment and course plans. Most importantly, peer and instructor's feedback and the blog characteristics like free access, ease of revision, and interesting material for learning were major factors that enhanced students' learning satisfaction by motivating them to learn effectively.&lt;/span&gt;

Blogging and Environmental Advocacy: A New Way to Engage the Public?

While there is a growing literature on weblogs (or “blogs”), most studies focus on a few high profile blogs, or on blogs written by individuals. This study assesses the little-researched area of organizational blogging through a content analysis of blogs by 40 national-level environmental organizations. I examine the general purposes that these blogs serve and the extent to which organizational blogs differ from traditional websites. Additionally, I explore two blog features—interactivity and personalized content—that offer the potential to strengthen the connections between group leaders and their supporters. I find that groups use their blogs primarily to inform readers about policy developments and news headlines, but that the level of interactivity between blog authors and readers is low. Thus, while the potential exists for blogs to enhance grassroots support for environmental groups, that potential is far from being realized.

Variation in Health Blog Features and Elements by Gender, Occupation, and Perspective

This study explores whether there are gender and occupational differences in the health blogosphere, and whether there are differences by blogger perspective. Data derive from content analysis of 951 health blogs identified between June 2007 and May 2008. Results indicate that male, physician bloggers were more likely to have blogs that feature a SiteMeter, sponsorship and advertising, which also were more prevalent among those blogging from a professional perspective. Females, those in non-health-related employment, and patient/consumer and caregiver bloggers were more likely to blog about disease and disability, males, the health employed, and professional bloggers about provider experiences, health research/news, and health policy, business, law, and technology. Since the Internet is becoming a primary source of health information, establishing normative guidelines regarding information quality, patient privacy, and conflicts of interest is essential. Future research should build on these findings using national surveys of health bloggers and textual analysis of blog content.

Extracting common emotions from blogs based on fine-grained sentiment clustering

Recently, blogs have emerged as the major platform for people to express their feelings and sentiments in the age of Web 2.0. The common emotions, which reflect people’s collective and overall sentiments, are becoming the major concern for governments, business companies and individual users. Different from previous literatures on sentiment classification and summarization, the major issue of common emotion extraction is to find out people’s collective sentiments and their corresponding distributions on the Web. Most existing blog clustering methods take into account keywords, stories or timelines but neglect the embedded sentiments, which are considered very important features of blogs. In this paper, a novel method based on Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA) is presented to model the hidden sentiment factors and an emotion-oriented clustering approach is proposed to find common emotions according to the fine-grained sentiment similarity between blogs. Extensive experiments are conducted on real-world datasets consisting of different topics. The results show that our approach can partition blogs into sentiment coherent clusters and the extracted common emotion words afford good navigation guidelines for embedded sentiments in each cluster.