Workshop Program


11:00Welcome
11:15 Leave a Reply: An Analysis of Weblog Comments, Gilad Mishne and Natalie Glance
11:40 The Ties that Blog: Examining the Relationship Between Social Ties and Continued Participation in the Wallop Weblogging System, Thomas Lento, Howard T. Welser, Lei Gu and Marc Smith
12:05 Blogs During the London Attacks: Top Information Sources and Topics, Mike Thelwall
12:30 Experiments on Persian Weblogs, Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili, Mohsen Jamali, Mahmood Neshati, Hassan Abolhassani and Yasaman Soltan-Zadeh
1:00 Lunch
2:00 Discovery of Blog Communities Based on Mutual Awareness, Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Yun Chi, Jun Tatemura and Belle Tseng
2:25 Characterizing the Splogosphere, Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java and Tim Finin
2:50 Detecting Blog Spams using the Vocabulary Size of All Substrings in Their Copies, Kazuyuki Narisawa, Yasuhiro Yamada, Daisuke Ikeda and Masayuki Takeda
3:15 Collaborative Blog Spam Filtering Using Adaptive Percolation Search, Seungyeop Han, Yong-yeol Ahn, Sue Moon and Hawoong Jeong
3:35 Coffee Break
4:00 Discussion
4:30 Decomposing Bloggers' Moods: Towards a Time Series Analysis of Moods in the Blogosphere, Krisztian Balog and Maarten de Rijke
4:50 Extracting Topics From Weblogs Through Frequency Segments, Mizuki Oka, Hirotake Abe and Kazuhiko Kato
5:10 BLOGRANGER - A Multi-Faceted Blog Search Engine, Ko Fujimura, Hiroyuki Toda, Takafumi Inoue, Nobuaki Hiroshima, Ryoji Kataoka and Masayuki Sugizaki
5:35 Browsing System for Weblog Articles based on Automated Folksonomy, Tsutomu Ohkura, Yoji Kiyota and Hiroshi Nakagawa
6:00 Closing