Comments on: Probing the Nature of Blog Communities

By: The Goodspeed Update » Blog Archive » Lessons from I-Neighbors.org

The Goodspeed Update » Blog Archive » Lessons from I-Neighbors.org — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:48:39 +0000

[...] create a public good – information and opinion – that others can read or react to. This relates to Noor Ali-Hasan’s blog study that argued active conversation starting blogs play an important role in a larger ecosystem of [...]

By: Dr. Mohamed Taher

Dr. Mohamed Taher — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:45:42 +0000

Interesting. This graphical representation is much similar to what I have visualized in my blog comments…
http://akbani.blogspot.com/2006/07/visualizing-comments-on-blogs.html#links

By: Noor

Noor — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 04:25:41 +0000

Thanks Rob for your thorough review. I've posted a follow-up post regarding the feedback that I have received about my thesis.

By: The Desert of My Dreams » Thesis Follow-up

The Desert of My Dreams » Thesis Follow-up — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 04:22:59 +0000

[...] Rob Goodspeed gave a fairly accurate and thorough review of my thesis, which I don’t have much to disagree with. Due to the labor-intensive nature of gathering comment data, I should note that I only collected comments for the Kuwait community. My observations about conversation-starters and conversation-supporters are only for the Kuwait community (but I believe that this typology probably holds for much of the blogosphere). Rob also compares my network diagrams with the long tail theory. Essentially, my diagrams are a different way of visualizing the long tail. In the blogosphere, there are a small number of highly linked-to blogs and a large number of blogs that receive a small number of links. [...]

By: shirazi

shirazi — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:34:06 +0000

Blogs by nature do not recognise geographical boundries. Studying blog communities: bloggers in Kuwait, bloggers in Dallas/Ft. Worth, and in the United Arab Emirates have brought out infrances that may not be applicable to what is called blogsphere. Nice work.

By: Seth Anderson

Seth Anderson — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:44:14 +0000

Umm, wasn’t Krugman with the dig at bloggers, it was Thomas Friedman. Interesting article though, and I agree that the Long Tail explanation doesn’t necessarily apply to the blogosphere.