Acknowledgments
1 Modeling Blogosphere
1.1 Modeling Essentials
1.2 Preferential Attachment Blog Models
1.2.1 Log-normal Distribution Models
2 Blog Clustering and Community Discovery
2.1 Graph Based Approach
2.2 Content Based Approach
2.3 Hybrid Approach
3 Influence and Trust
3.1 Influence
3.1.1 Graph Based Approach
3.1.2 Content Based Approach
3.1.3 Hybrid Approach
3.1.4 Blog Leaders
3.2 Trust
3.2.1 Trust Computation
3.2.2 Trust Propagation
4 Spam Filtering in Blogosphere
4.1 Graph Based Approach
4.2 Content Based Approach
4.3 Hybrid Approach
5 Data Collection and Evaluation
5.1 Data Collection
5.1.1 API
5.1.2 Web Crawler
5.1.3 Available Datasets
5.1.4 Data Preprocessing
5.2 Evaluation
5.2.1 Blog Modeling
5.2.2 Blog Clustering and Community Discovery
5.2.3 Influence and Trust
5.2.4 Spam
A Tools in Blogosphere
B API Examples
Bibliography
Biography
Index