BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Fouad, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society has focused on this over the years, for one. Here's a starting place: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2005/08/30/measuring-the-blogosphere/. [1] Check their archive, as well. And you might find material here at the virtual ethnography wiki bibilography: http://webnographers.org. [2] Please add some of what you find to the open, free, 'edit this page' World University and School's Media Studies page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Studies [3] All best, Scott http://scottmacleod.com This email is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of this email message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and destroy/delete all copies of the transmittal. Thank you. On Sun 11/04/10 8:11 PM , Fouad Bajwa fouadbajwa@gmail.com sent: Dear Community Members, I would like to learn the various methods and tools used to determine the total number of blogs in a given region? Has anyone attempted such an endeavour and what were there findings? I would like to explore this for my country to identify the number of blogs in Pakistan, categorize them within active and non-active (within a given criteria of number of posts) etc. Kindly point me to available work, methodology, tools if any, how such data mining would actually be carried out etc. Appreciating your support in advance. -- Regards. -------------------------- Fouad Bajwa Internet Governance Advisor ICT4D Social Practitioner & Researcher Member Multistakeholder Advisory Group (IGF) Member Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) My Blog: Internet's Governance: http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com/ Follow my Tweets: http://twitter.com/fouadbajwa MAG Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATVDW1tDZzA _______________________________________________ The mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ Links: ------ [1] http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2005/08/30/measuring-the-blogosphere/. [2] http://webnographers.org. [3] http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Studies