Introduction: The Blogosphere

Our main goal is to show new ways and means to extract reliable and valuable knowledge of the blogosphere. Following an abstract view of the blogosphere from two different angles, we dive deeper into the diverse varieties of blogs and introduce some interesting ones. Then, we continue our journey by collecting requirements for retrieving new knowledge and showing the path from content collection to data mining and knowledge visualization. After this we present a tool that actively supports the extraction of knowledge and show two mining functionalities included in the aforementioned tool. At the end, we will discuss our expectations for the future trends of the blogosphere and social media analytics in general.

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