04.03.07 hp blog research

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  Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious, Wired News, Amit Asaravala,
  March 5, 2004, Story location:
  http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,62537,00.html
  

  
  

  The most-read webloggers aren't necessarily the ones with
  the most original ideas, say researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs.
  
  

  Using newly developed techniques for graphing the flow of
  information between blogs, the researchers have discovered that
  authors of popular blog sites regularly borrow topics from
  lesser-known bloggers -- and they often do so without attribution.
  
  

  These findings are important to sociologists who are interested
  in learning how ideas grow from isolated topics into full-blown
  epidemics that "infect" large populations. Such an understanding
  is also important to marketers, who hope to be able to pitch products
  and ideas directly to the most influential people in a given group.
  

  
  
• tools sited in the article
  
  
  
  • blog
    epidemic analyzer - hp labs
    
  • blogpulse -
    intelliseek.
    
  
  
• resources
  
  
  
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    hp information dymamics lab blog project - Memes, Blogs, and iRank,
    Supplement for Implicit Structure and Dynamics of Blogspace.
    
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    hp information dynamics lab - the main research focus of
    the information dynamics laboratory is on the relation between
    the local actions and the global behavior of large distributed
    systems. Areas that we explore are distributed knowledge,
    ` aspects of bioinformatics, social organizations, and novel
    economic mechanisms.
    
    
    
    
    • "Privacy and Deviance,
      Bernardo A. Huberman, Eytan Adar and Leslie Fine
      
    • How to search a social network,
      Lada A. Adamic and Eytan Adar
      
    • Implicit Structure and the Dynamics of Blogspace,
      Eytan Adar, Li Zhang, Lada A. Adamic, and Rajan M. Lukose
      
    • Finding Communities in Linear Time,
      Fang Wu and Bernardo A. Huberman
      
    • Conversational Structure in Email and Face-to-face Communication,
      Christoph H. Loch, Joshua R. Tyler, and Rajan Lukose
      
    
    
    
  • intelliseek
    - delivers actionable business intelligence solutions that
    drive ROI and decision-making for progressive marketers,
    researchers and government professionals. e.g.
    Power Shift:
    How the Internet Gives Consumers the Upper Hand - and What
    Proactive Automakers Can Do About It examines the
    reach of consumer-to-consumer discussions about autos on
    the Internet and lays out a plan of action for auto firms,
    agencies and others interested in capturing, understanding
    and acting on this online "buzz."