Two Words, One Answer.
Blogosphere
 Blogger: Beyond the Basics: Customize and promote your blog with original templates, analytics, advertising, and SEO (From Technologies to Solutions) $39.99 This book by Lee Jordan is perfect for the novice blogger and packed with must have info for even the seasoned blogger. While it particularly deals with the Blogger (Google) platform, a good bit of the information extends beyond Blogger to services and tips that could be used for a variety of platforms. I love the approach Jordan uses - taking a sample blog that is plain in nature and allowing the reader to follow that blogs evolution to a more professional looking blog using the guidelines and tips offered in the book. Jordan shows you why popular blogs are so popular and what you can do to enhance your ratings and most importantly, your readership. He leaves no stone unturned as he divulges all the tricks of the trade, er uh, hobby. Whatever the purpose of your blog is you should invest in this tool. It easy to understand, simple to follow, and indexed for ease of locating information. I have used it many times in the last few weeks to look up a particular subject and implement the information given. Here is a list of the chapters: 1. All Blogs Are Not Created Equal 2. Customize and CreateTemplates 3. Social Bookmarking 4. Joining the Blogosphere 5. Using Widgets 6. RSS and Atom Syndication 7. Making Money With Ads 8. Measuring Site Performance with Google Analytics 9. Search Engine Optimization 10. Website Integration Oh and it comes in paperback or e-book form!  About.com Guide to Online Research: Navigate the Web?from RSS and the Invisible Web to Multimedia and the Blogosphere (About.Com Guides) $17.95 This is a great book with great ideas. When I was studying online research, I found that there are many options that you can choose from. A new way that you might want to checkout for boosting your research would be with[..]. It's a great way to outsource various types of online research due to its low cost, ease of use and access to a massive workforce. Check it out!  Modeling and Data Mining in Blogosphere (Synthesis Lectures on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery) $30.00 This book offers a comprehensive overview of the various concepts and research issues about blogs or weblogs. It introduces techniques and approaches, tools and applications, and evaluation methodologies with examples and case studies. Blogs allow people to express their thoughts, voice their opinions, and share their experiences and ideas. Blogs also facilitate interactions among individuals creating a network with unique characteristics. Through the interactions individuals experience a sense of community. We elaborate on approaches that extract communities and cluster blogs based on information of the bloggers. Open standards and low barrier to publication in Blogosphere have transformed information consumers to producers, generating an overwhelming amount of ever-increasing knowledge about the members, their environment and symbiosis. We elaborate on approaches that sift through humongous blog data sources to identify influential and trustworthy bloggers leveraging content and network information. Spam blogs or "splogs" are an increasing concern in Blogosphere and are discussed in detail with the approaches leveraging supervised machine learning algorithms and interaction patterns. We elaborate on data collection procedures, provide resources for blog data repositories, mention various visualization and analysis tools in Blogosphere, and explain conventional and novel evaluation methodologies, to help perform research in the Blogosphere. The book is supported by additional material, including lecture slides as well as the complete set of figures used in the book, and the reader is encouraged to visit the book website for the latest information: http://tinyurl.com/mcp-agarwal Table of Contents: Modeling Blogosphere / Blog Clustering and Community Discovery / Influence and Trust / Spam Filtering in Blogosphere / Data Collection and Evaluation |
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