Differences between Blogs and Web Diaries
Toshiaki Fujiki, Tomoyuki Nanno, Manabu Okumura · 2005
The number of weblogs (blogs) is rapidly increasing. However, there had been many ‘web diaries’ before the blogs arrived in Japan. ‘Web diaries’ are very similar to blogs, except that they are published without using blog publishing tools. In this paper, we discuss whether the difierences between blogs and ‘web diaries’ are signiflcant for text mining or not. We conducted experiments to flnd the difierences by comparing ‘hot topic words’ automatically extracted from blogs and ‘web diaries’. The results suggested that we could obtain better results by using blogs and ‘web diaries’ together rather than by only using the RSS data of blogs.