Longitudinal study of changes in blogs

  • Authors:
  • Paul Logasa Bogen, II;Luis Francisco-Revilla;Richard Furuta;Takeisha Hubbard;Unmil P. Karadkar;Frank Shipman

  • Affiliations:
  • Texas A&M University, College Station, TX;University of Texas, Austin, TX;Texas A&M University, College Station, TX;Texas A&M University, College Station, TX;Texas A&M University, College Station, TX;Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Web-based distributed collections often include links to documents that are expected to change frequently, such as blogs. The study reported here demonstrates that blog changes follow specific patterns. The results also illustrate the substantial role of standardized templates in blog pages. These results extend our earlier models that assess the significance of Web page change from a human perspective. These improved models will enable software systems to assist human collection managers in identifying unexpected changes and aberrant events.