Adamic and Glance

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In 2004, Adamic and Glance measured the degree of interaction between liberal and conservative blogs and made a significant attempt to uncover the differences in the structure of the two communities. Specifically, they analyzed 40 “a-list” blogs for 2 months preceding the U.S. elections. They studied the frequency of reference exchange among the two communities and quantified their own and other communities topic overlap (single-day snapshots of blogrolls of more than 1000 political blogs). Their observations on linkage patterns and density between liberals and democratic seems like the most significant ones, in terms of cross-method ability (online and offline data analysis) and analysis worth further applying. For this paper I will attempt to address the qualitative weaknesses of the report according to the following points:


The impact findings (9% of blog influence increase)

Measurement of blog aggregation websites, search engines, feeds and search analytics activity

Measurement of impressions

The distinction between blog references in blogrolls and posts

Accuracy on information about active link activity. The assumption that the network obtained by crawling the front page each blog is now considered wrong.

Exclusion of automatically generated links and classifying them as unintentional citation


Communities

Study of sub-communities of political blogs

Strength of community

Varied Conversations

Interaction with mainstream media

Keyword occurrences

Comparison between mainstream media, “a-list” blogs and the rest of the blogosphere

The self calling independent blogs and whether - bridge effect


Theodor Kolovos

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