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Mónica André is a little bit confused in her delicious feed of being so significant in the text analysis of the KM+ community. She is obviously right, her weblog was included based on linking (which is correct) but should have been excluded from the text analysis as it mainly is in Portuguese. Sorry about the confusion Mónica. Publishing part of the raw data apparently has benefits (blush, blush). Thanks!
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Missed this while on my travels. Anjo, Lilia and Stephanie have been doing some interesting things analysing blog communities through terminology rather than links. [Anjo writes it up here, here and here.] One of the upshots of it all is... [Read More]
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Knew you would find the bookmark on delicious, but thought it would take longer ;-)
Although it explains, in part, it did uncover something that was invisible for a non-speaking Portuguese community: bridging the linguistic gap, made it possible for the computer analysis to read data, otherwise invisible, assuming that barriers for participation do not have to be lingua related. Further more, alowing to spread the ongoing research about weblogs, to a wider comunity.
For a long time i've felt that distance is not there anymore and even if my presence is not felt, it's like i'm living in the same neighborhood: observing, taking notes, interacting, reflecting, building on shared concepts of older residents... even knowing that my linguistic and cultural skills still make me an expatriate on the country of weblog research ;-)
Thanks,
Mónica
Posted by: Mónica | October 11, 2005 at 10:49 AM
The nice thing about not blogging in English, is that when you use English from time-to-time this will almost always be about the subject matter of others (in the community). This also explains why you ranked so high.
In general, I don't see why language should be a serious problem if you are interested in those who can blog in Portuguese (which would include Brazil I suppose). Comparing English and Portuguese (or English and German) is nonsense of course. There are undoubtedly "communities" of some sort that have a heavy "language other than English" bias.
Links, of course, ignore language. Checking your blog in BlogTrace I noticed several links to non-English blogs. Cannot determine whether these links are based on passion or profession.
Posted by: Anjo | October 11, 2005 at 09:54 PM