Considering the Sources: Comparing Linking Patterns in Usenet and Blogs

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 3

Volume

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2009): Third International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Poster Papers

Usenet is a decentralized discussion community predating blogs by decades. Just as there are a wide range of political blogs, many Usenet sub-communities focus on politics. However, we find these two communities are very different in terms of source content. In this work we compare linking patterns of the political Usenet with a well-known political blog and news aggregator, Memeorandum, with respect to coverage of news and blog sources, attention of stories, and timeliness of links.

10.1609/icwsm.v3i1.13991