Visualizing Blogsphere Using Content Based Clusters

Lots of people now have their own blogs or they publish comments, news in a public blog, even some companies publish their own blogs in order to introduce the services and products. However, there are many potential relationships inside the blogsphere. In this paper, we propose a novel method to cluster and visualize blogs to give a clear view of the blogsphere, and also provide an easy way to explore it. Using this method, people could easily find the interested blogs and can maintain the mental map when searching certain blog pages. Compare to other graph display for blogs, our approach can identify different groups based on topics, such as star, movie and music, also we give an interface to navigate the blogs. The method could also be applied to other areas, for instance social network, paper co-citation.