International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

A short drive up north and a couple of benjamins will secure you entrance to the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media on Sunday, March 30th through Wednesday, April 2. The schedule looks really good. I would especially like to see “BLEWS: Using Blogs to Provide Context for News Articles.” BLEWS deserves its own post. Conference topics include:

Link-PLSA-LDA: A new unsupervised model for topics and influence of blogs
Competing to Share Expertise: the Taskcn Knowledge Sharing Community
Finding Influencers and Consumer Insights in the Blogosphere
What Elements of an Online Social Networking Profile Predict Target-Rater Agreement in Personality?
Spontaneous Inference of Personality Traits from Online Profiles
The Psychology of Word Use in Depression Forums in English and in Spanish
Thin Slices of Online Profile Attributes, Kristin Stecher, Scott Counts
Document Representation and Query Expansion Models for Blog Recommendation
Polling the Blogosphere: a Rule-Based Approach to Belief Classification
International Sentiment Analysis for News and Blogs
Wikipedian Self-Governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens
A Large-Scale Study of MySpace: Observations and Implications for Online Social Networks
Space Planning for Online Community
Recovering Implicit Thread Structure in Newsgroup Style Conversations
A Social Network Based Approach to Personalized Recommendation of Participatory Media Content
Wikipedia as an Ontology for Describing Documents
On TREC Blog Track
BLEWS: Using Blogs to Provide Context for News Articles
Exploring Social Media Scenarios for the Television
The Politics of Sourcing: A Study of Journalistic Practices in the Blogosphere