Geographical distribution of blogs in the United States

Webology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Lin, Jia ^a   Halavais, Alex ^b  

^a Waggener Edstrom Worldwide ^*  (United States)

^b QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blog; City; Geocoding; Geography; Information retrieval; United States; Weblog; Zip code

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846807855     PISSN: 1735188X     EISSN: 1735188X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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