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This book represents an attempt to fully review the phenomenon of the blogosphere. The intention is to provide a reliable guide to understanding and analyzing the world of the unimaginable number of diverse blogs, each consisting of innumerable posts, which in their entirety form the blogosphere. We go on to answer the questions of how to grasp the complexity of the blogosphere and extract useful knowledge from it. In setting out to write this book, our central aim was to increase the reader's awareness and understanding of the blogosphere phenomenon, including its structure and characteristics. This can be achieved through a better understanding of individual blogs and their particular technical characteristics, as well as a deeper knowledge of how a single blog is embedded and interconnected within the entire blogosphere. The shape and form of the blogosphere can be described using the analogy of different continents. In our description the defining features and characteristics of the continents are illustrated by paradigmatic example blogs. Following on from the structural analysis we provide details of the available methods and describe the complex challenge of automatically retrieving information from the abundance of data contained in the blogosphere. Finally, we present our blog search platform, called BLOGINTELLIGENCE and describe all the tools and features we have developed during the last couple of years to explore the blogosphere.
List of contents
Introduction.- The Blogosphere.- Understanding the Blogosphere.- Micro- and Macro-Perspective.- Areas of the Blogosphere.- Introduction to Important Areas of the Blogosphere.- Docu-Blog Use Case: The It-Gipfelblog.- Edu-Blog Use Case: InternetWorking Blog and HPI MOOCs.- Marketing-Blog Use Case: SAP HANA Blog.- Ego-Blog Use Case: Heinz-Paul Bonn.- Corporate-Blog Use Case: SAP Blog.- The Explorer's Path through the Blogosphere.- Challenge of Exploring the Blogosphere.- BlogIntelligence Portal.- DAta Extraction.- Data Analysis.- Data Visualization.- The Secret Depths of the Blogosphere.- Analyzing and Forecasting Trends.- Judging Consistency and Expertise of Blogs.- Expected Growth and Future Structure.- Future Influence and Usage Patterns.- Vision of Analysis and Monitoring.- Bibliography.
About the author
Dr. sc. nat. Christoph Meinel (1954) ist Direktor und Geschäftsführer des Hasso-Plattner-Instituts für Softwaresystemtechnik GmbH (HPI) und ordentlicher Professor (C4) für Internet-Technologien und Systeme. Er hat Mathematik und Informatik an der Humboldt-Universität in Berlin studiert, dort 1981 promoviert und sich 1988 an der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin habilitiert. Er wurde 1992 zum ordentlichen Professor (C4) für Informatik an die Univ. Trier berufen und hat dort in den Jahren 1998-2002 neben seinem Lehrstuhl das von der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft betreute Institut für Telematik e.V. geleitet. Seit 2004 ist er Direktor und Geschäftsführer des HPIs und hat einen Lehrstuhl (C4) für Internet-Technologien und Systeme an der Universität Potsdam. Neben seiner Lehrtätigkeit in Potsdam ist er Gastprofessor an der Univ. Luxembourg (Luxembourg) und an der TU Peking (China) und als Programmdirektor des HPI-Stanford Forschungsprogramms zum Design Thinking Research tätig. Christoph Meinel ist Autor bzw. Co-Autor und Inhaber internationaler Patente. Seine aktuellen Forschungsinteressen liegen in den Bereichen IT-Sicherheit, Teleteaching, Semantic/Social Web und e-Health. Er war wissenschaftlich aktiv auch auf dem Gebiet der Komplexitätstheorie und hat (BDD-basierte) Datenstrukturen und effiziente Algorithmen untersucht und entworfen. Er ist Chairman des 2007 gegründeten deutschen IPv6-Rats, Herausgeber von ECCC - Electronic Colloquiums on Computational Complexity, des IT-Gipfelblog und des tele-TASK-Archivs. 1996-2007 gehörte er dem Direktorium des IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl an und war Sprecher der GI-Fachgruppe 'Komplexität'. Er hat in einer großen Zahl internationaler Programm-Komitees mitgewirkt, diverse Konferenzen und Symposien veranstaltet und ist in wissenschaftlichen Aufsichtsräten aktiv.
Summary
This book represents an attempt to fully review the phenomenon of the blogosphere. The intention is to provide a reliable guide to understanding and analyzing the world of the unimaginable number of diverse blogs, each consisting of innumerable posts, which in their entirety form the blogosphere. We go on to answer the questions of how to grasp the complexity of the blogosphere and extract useful knowledge from it. In setting out to write this book, our central aim was to increase the reader’s awareness and understanding of the blogosphere phenomenon, including its structure and characteristics. This can be achieved through a better understanding of individual blogs and their particular technical characteristics, as well as a deeper knowledge of how a single blog is embedded and interconnected within the entire blogosphere. The shape and form of the blogosphere can be described using the analogy of different continents. In our description the defining features and characteristics of the continents are illustrated by paradigmatic example blogs. Following on from the structural analysis we provide details of the available methods and describe the complex challenge of automatically retrieving information from the abundance of data contained in the blogosphere. Finally, we present our blog search platform, called BLOGINTELLIGENCE and describe all the tools and features we have developed during the last couple of years to explore the blogosphere.
