Comments on: Social Network Analysis of Blogosphere, part 2 http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2006/02/15/social-network-analysis-of-blogosphere-part-2 Blogs, social network sites, social software---and how to use all of these tools to become dramatically more successful Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:09:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Bamblog » ‘Unstable Texts’ - Masters thesis on Weblogs http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2006/02/15/social-network-analysis-of-blogosphere-part-2#comment-26663 Bamblog » ‘Unstable Texts’ - Masters thesis on Weblogs Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:34:17 +0000 http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2006/02/15/social-network-analysis-of-blogosphere-part-2#comment-26663 [...] (3) Norm formation - a very important chapter, since there is not a lot of literature on the norm formation process in blogging yet. Amanda takes my distinction between explicit norms, emergent norms and architectural norms as a starting point and discusses Blogrolls and comment sections as places where the negotiation of ‘blogging rules’ (I prefer the term rules over norms, since it is more general) can be observed. [as an aside: the nature of the Blogroll as an expression of one’s social network has recently been discussed here and here]. There sure is a lot more to research, since rules are an important structural part of blogging practices: routines and expectations of using the new online format which are shared between people in social networks of different sizes and density (think about teen blogging practices which differ from the knowledge management blogosphere which again are blogging in a different way than the knitting weblog communitiy). [...] […] (3) Norm formation - a very important chapter, since there is not a lot of literature on the norm formation process in blogging yet. Amanda takes my distinction between explicit norms, emergent norms and architectural norms as a starting point and discusses Blogrolls and comment sections as places where the negotiation of ‘blogging rules’ (I prefer the term rules over norms, since it is more general) can be observed. [as an aside: the nature of the Blogroll as an expression of one’s social network has recently been discussed here and here]. There sure is a lot more to research, since rules are an important structural part of blogging practices: routines and expectations of using the new online format which are shared between people in social networks of different sizes and density (think about teen blogging practices which differ from the knowledge management blogosphere which again are blogging in a different way than the knitting weblog communitiy). […]

]]> By: Visible Path http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2006/02/15/social-network-analysis-of-blogosphere-part-2#comment-26311 Visible Path Sun, 19 Feb 2006 00:23:39 +0000 http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2006/02/15/social-network-analysis-of-blogosphere-part-2#comment-26311 <strong>The Blogosphere</strong> Earlier, last month, I posted to Centrality a comment on Technorati, and how their rankings are calculated. Technorati, as I... The Blogosphere

Earlier, last month, I posted to Centrality a comment on Technorati, and how their rankings are calculated. Technorati, as I…

]]> By: Data Mining http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2006/02/15/social-network-analysis-of-blogosphere-part-2#comment-26201 Data Mining Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:13:42 +0000 http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2006/02/15/social-network-analysis-of-blogosphere-part-2#comment-26201 <strong>Linkology</strong> The Virtual Handshake points to this article in New York magazine about blogs and their relationships. It describes the top 50 bloggers and illustrates their relationships with a one dimensional graph: It is interesting to see the outages here, which Linkology

The Virtual Handshake points to this article in New York magazine about blogs and their relationships. It describes the top 50 bloggers and illustrates their relationships with a one dimensional graph: It is interesting to see the outages here, which

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