• International Journal of Costume and Fashion
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.65-78
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• 2011

Social media which support to share information and communicate between online users have recently won great popularity. Of the various social services blogs have played an active role as a community in sharing delivering and exchanging information among individual users who have share similar opinions hobbies and preferences. Based on this cultural phenomenon some companies often take advantage of blogs as a marketing tool to strengthen their public relations or deliver particular information to their costumer. This study is designed to classify fashion-related blogs and define the characteristics of each type expecting significant influences on future studies on this topic. We selected 50 fashion-related blogs as subjects including 25 Korean blogs and the same number of international blogs, defined their characteristics and classified them into four different types. As the result we found that there are apparent differences between the four types of blogs: "Individual taste" blogs which noticeably reflect bloggers' own preference "Trend leader" blogs in which the bloggers intend to be trend leaders beyond expressing their preference "Fashion media" blogs which plays a significant role as a magazine by providing various information concerning fashion for costumers and "Sales promotion" blogs which are used as promotional materials to attract customers by providing product reviews or advertisements.

• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.37-46
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• 2013

This research was investigated the problem of power blogs related to cooking through the investigation of usage and satisfaction of those blogs as new information media in internet community. As a result, most users had were received cooking information through internet and 85.7% of those users have experienced power blogs related to cooking. The most frequent access methods were via search engines. What users are received from power blogs related to cooking are cooking recipes. What did they want the most from those blogs are accurate recipes for everyday meal. According to this opinion poll, majority of respondents were collected cooking information through internet and experience more and more power blogs related to cooking, whereas users lost their satisfaction and belief from power blogs when there was a lack of enough information on power blogs, an inaccuracy of the information from the power blogs, or an extraordinary recipes. To improve power blogs related to cooking, not only various cooking information but also everyday cooking recipes were required, but power bloggers should also consider everyday cooking materials and recipes with simple cooking utensils.

• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.1031-1048
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to investigate the status of domestic and foreign power blogs that serve as professional source of information and to clarify the difference of the criteria for the certification and selection of power blogs. The study also analyzed the configuration of contents and the characteristic of categories of the power blogs. Eleven domestic blogs were examined, of which ten were certified as power blogs on several portal sites and one blog was operating in English. Furthermore twelve foreign blogs were examined, of which ten blogs were selected from the graded list of www.alexa.com for the Fashion Power Blog TOP 20 adopted on www.telegraph.co.uk in 2009, and two noticeable blogs were selected additionally. Data were analyzed by both theoretical and exploratory studies. The exploratory study was conducted by fourteen majors, who took interest in the blogs and were divided into two groups to look at the domestic and foreign sites, from 12 October to 12 November in 2010. The types of blogs were classified by frequency analysis of interactivity, interest provision, information provision and purchase capability. The investigators checked the type of the contents of each blog and the frequencies were used for the classification type. The analysis showed that the frequencies were in the order of information provision, followed by interest provision, and purchase capability for foreign blogs, while interest provision was followed by information provision for domestic blogs. Interactivity, interest provision, information provision and purchase capability were generally reflected in foreign blogs. Rather than interest provision and information provision, however, interactivity and purchase capability were reflected relatively weakly in domestic blogs.

• Educational Technology International
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.97-127
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• 2022

With the recent advancement of technology, there has been an increase in professional development activities, including teachers using blogs to share practical knowledge and reflect on teaching and learning. This study was conducted to identify the contents of practical knowledge shared through the K-12 teachers' blogs. To achieve the research objective, 70,571 blog posts were collected from 329 blogs of K-12 teachers in Korean and analyzed using text mining techniques. The results of the study are as follows. First, practical knowledge sharing activities using teacher blogs have increased. Teachers posted a lot of blogs during the semester. Second, primary school teachers share various curriculum activities, reflections on project classes, class management, opinions related to education, and personal. Third, secondary school teachers share summaries and reviews of curriculum, materials related to college entrance exams, various instructional materials, opinions related to education, and personal experiences on their blogs. This study suggested that blogs are widely used as a venue for sharing practical knowledge of teachers, and that blogs can be a useful way to develop professionalism.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.55-62
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• 2016

Recently, users choosing a restaurant basedon information provided by blogs are increasing significantly. However, those of most blogs are unreliable since domestic restaurant blogs are occupied by advertising postings written by 'power bloggers'. Thus, in order to ensure the reliability of blogs, it is necessary to filter the advertising blogs which are sometimes false or exaggerated. In this paper, we propose the method of distinguishing the advertising blogs utilizing an automatic classification technique. In the proposed technique, we first manually collected advertising restaurant blogs, and then analyzed features which are commonly found in those blogs. Using the extracted features, we determined whether a given blog is advertising one applying automatic classification algorithms. Additionally, we select the features and the algorithm which guarantee optimal classification performance through comparative experiments.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.57-73
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to suggest the methods for activating blogs in university libraries by investigating and analyzing their current management conditions. For this purpose, first, literatures related to library blogs were reviewed to examine the theoretical background. Second, the contents of university library blogs actively used, were investigated. Third, a survey with librarians in charge of the library blogs was carried out in order to identify problems dealing with blog management. The study's analysis presented the problems that university library blogs faced. And also enrichment strategies for university library blogs are suggested based on the research.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.50-57
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• 2015

An online survey was conducted to assess motivations for using, reliance on, and perceived credibility of political blogs and microblogs during both the Taiwanese general election of 2009 (the blog epoch) and the presidential elections of 2012 (the microblog epoch). Results indicated higher reliance on and motivation for using political blogs than microblogs. Blogs were also perceived to be more credible than microblogs. Respondents who primarily engaged in blogging for information purposes were more likely to judge candidate blogs as highly credible, whereas interest in entertainment emerged as the strongest predictor of the perceived credibility of microblogs. This research also provided quantitative evidence showing how users viewed blogs and microblogs differently in the context of political campaigns. The aim is to explore the pros and cons of blogging and microblogging as a tool for political communication.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.42-49
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• 2009

This paper addresses clustering of blogs and posts in blogosphere. First, we model blogosphere as a social network where blogs and posts correspond to nodes and interactions on posts by blogs corresponds to links. Next, for clustering in blogosphere, we employ LinkClus, a link based algorithm that finds clusters of nodes in a network effectively and efficiently. For more accurate clustering, we propose two refinements: (1) change of granularity from blogs to folders, and (2) removal of blogs and posts being highly likely to incur noises. Finally, we verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach by showing how the posts and blogs in the same cluster are similar to one another in terms of their contents.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.258-266
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• 2010

In this paper, we introduce a novel method to predict next update of blogs. The number of RSS feeds registered on meta-blogs is on the order of several million. Checking for updates is very time consuming and imposes a heavy burden on network resources. Since blog search engine has limited resources, there is a fix number of blogs that it can visit on a day. Nevertheless we need to maximize chances of getting new data, and the proposed method which predicts update probability on blogs could bring better chances for it. Also this work is important to avoid distributed denial-of-service attack for the owners of blogs. Furthermore, for the internet as whole this work is important, too, because our approach could minimize traffic. In this study, we assumed that there is a specific pattern to when a blogger is actively posting, in terms of days of the week and, more specifically, hours of the day. We analyzed 15,119 blogs to determine a blogger's posting preference. This paper proposes a method to predict the update probability based on a blogger's posting history and preferred days of the week. We applied proposed method to 12,115 blogs to check the precision of our predictions. The evaluation shows that the model has a precision of 0.5 for over 93.06% of the blogs examined.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.185-203
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• 2011

In recent years, blogs have become important resources for information sharing; and tourism blogs are providing a new way of sharing tour experiences. Blogs are becoming very popular amongst web users to share their life experiences with other web users around the world. Specifically the goals of this research are; (1) to suggest theory framework of acceptance and user satisfaction about toruism blogs based on TAM, (2) to examine relationships between exogenous variables and (3) to suggest effectiveness of tourism blogs in a marketing perspective. The research model and hypotheses were developed based on the theories of technology acceptance model. Questionnaire was used to collect data. The analysis of this study is designed as individual level to examine the causal relationship among variables. The the reliability and validity of data was tested by explanatory factor analysis, Cronbach's alpha coefficient, confirmatory factor analysis, and correlation analysis. Also, the structural equation model(SEM) analysis was performed to test the usefulness of the model. The analysis results revealed that interaction, entertainment, system quality and information quality are major influential variables on the perceived usefulness of tourism blog. Also, entertainment and system quality are influential variables on the perceived ease of use of tourism blog.