Cyber Quiz: OPR-19: Review of Herring et al. (2005): Conversations in Blogosphere

Cyber Quiz: OPR-19: Review of Herring et al. (2005): Conversations inthe Blogosphere

According to Herring et al (2005),* the "blogosphere" (the universeof weblogs or blogs) has been claimed to be a densely interconnected conversation, with bloggers linking to other bloggers, referring to them in their entries, and posting comments on each other's blogs.This empirical investigation shows that A-list blogs (also called alpha bloggers) are overrepresented and central in the network,although other groupings of blogs are more densely interconnected.

Herrings et al. report that a majority of blogs link sparsely or not at all to other blogs in the sample, suggesting that the blogosphere is partially interconnected and sporadically conversational. (pp. 18-19).(n=5,517 weblogs).

Dr D.C.Misra
December 16, 2004.

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____________________________________________________________________*Herring, Susan C., Inna Kouper, John C. Paolillo, Lois Ann Scheidt,Michael Tyworth, Peter Welsch, Elijah Wright, and Ning Yu (2005):Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis "From the Bottom Up,"Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Hawai'i International Conference onSystem Sciences (HICSS-38), Los Alamitos, IEEE Press,http://www.blogninja.com/hicss05.blogconv.pdf (accessed: December 16,2004).