Blogosphere and its exploration

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This book offers a comprehensive review of the blogosphere, aiming to serve as a reliable guide for understanding its vast diversity. It addresses how to navigate the complexity of countless blogs and their myriad posts, collectively forming the blogosphere. The primary goal is to enhance readers' awareness of this phenomenon, focusing on its structure and characteristics. By examining individual blogs and their technical aspects, readers can better appreciate how each blog is interconnected within the broader blogosphere. The analogy of continents is used to describe the blogosphere's shape, with example blogs illustrating its defining features. Following this structural analysis, the book details methods for automatically retrieving information from the vast data within the blogosphere, highlighting the challenges involved. Additionally, it introduces a blog search platform named BLOGINTELLIGENCE, showcasing the tools and features developed over recent years to facilitate exploration of the blogosphere. This work ultimately seeks to empower readers with the knowledge needed to effectively analyze and engage with the rich landscape of blogs.