Feeds That Matter: A Study of Bloglines Subscriptions
David Sifry's latest quarterly report on the state of the Blogosphere states that ``the size of the Blogosphere continues
to double every six months". According to this report there are 33.5
million weblogs and many of these are actively posting. As the
Blogosphere continues to grow, finding good quality feeds is becoming
increasingly difficult. In this paper we present an analysis of the
feeds subscribed by a set of publicly listed Bloglines users. Using
the subscription information, we describe techniques to induce an
intuitive set of topics for feeds and blogs. These topic
categories, and their associated feeds, are key to a number of
blog-related applications, including the compilation of a list of
feeds that matter for a given topic. The site FTM! (Feeds That
Matter) was implemented to help users
browse and subscribe to an automatically generated catalog of
popular feeds for different topics.
Date: March 25, 2007
Book Title: Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2007)
Type: InProceedings
Publisher: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Organization: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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Bibtex
@InProceedings{Feeds_That_Matter_A_Study_of_Bloglines_S,
author = "Akshay Java and Pranam Kolari and Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi and Tim Oates",
title = "{Feeds That Matter: A Study of Bloglines Subscriptions}",
month = "March",
year = "2007",
organization = "Computer Science and Electrical Engineering",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2007)",
publisher = "University of Maryland, Baltimore County",
}