Blog quality model

Breakthroughs in technology are making the internet an ever-growing phenomenon, and we have witnessed an enormous growth of blogs in the blogosphere. However, the blogosphere has been crippled by disorganised and uncontrolled growth, and many blogs are of poor quality. Development domains, such as s...

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Main Authors: Muhammad Zain, Zuhaira, Abd Ghani, Abdul Azim, Abdullah, Rusli, Atan, Rodziah, Yaakob, Razali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Inderscience Publishers 2013
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30546/1/Blog%20quality%20model.pdf
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author Muhammad Zain, Zuhaira
Abd Ghani, Abdul Azim
Abdullah, Rusli
Atan, Rodziah
Yaakob, Razali
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Abd Ghani, Abdul Azim
Abdullah, Rusli
Atan, Rodziah
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description Breakthroughs in technology are making the internet an ever-growing phenomenon, and we have witnessed an enormous growth of blogs in the blogosphere. However, the blogosphere has been crippled by disorganised and uncontrolled growth, and many blogs are of poor quality. Development domains, such as software engineering, website engineering, and information systems, have provided accepted models for the assessment of the quality of their products. However, to the best of our knowledge, there appears to be no standard model for the assessment of blog quality. In this paper, we propose a blog quality model as a guide for bloggers at large, with a set of 49 criteria grouped into 11 families of features that are relevant to blog quality. This model has been constructed by determining a set of criteria from a review of the relevant literature and blogs and then measuring the acceptability of these criteria by means of questionnaire surveys sent to sample populations of blog readers.
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spelling upm.eprints-305462015-10-07T08:41:41Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30546/ Blog quality model Muhammad Zain, Zuhaira Abd Ghani, Abdul Azim Abdullah, Rusli Atan, Rodziah Yaakob, Razali Breakthroughs in technology are making the internet an ever-growing phenomenon, and we have witnessed an enormous growth of blogs in the blogosphere. However, the blogosphere has been crippled by disorganised and uncontrolled growth, and many blogs are of poor quality. Development domains, such as software engineering, website engineering, and information systems, have provided accepted models for the assessment of the quality of their products. However, to the best of our knowledge, there appears to be no standard model for the assessment of blog quality. In this paper, we propose a blog quality model as a guide for bloggers at large, with a set of 49 criteria grouped into 11 families of features that are relevant to blog quality. This model has been constructed by determining a set of criteria from a review of the relevant literature and blogs and then measuring the acceptability of these criteria by means of questionnaire surveys sent to sample populations of blog readers. Inderscience Publishers 2013-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30546/1/Blog%20quality%20model.pdf Muhammad Zain, Zuhaira and Abd Ghani, Abdul Azim and Abdullah, Rusli and Atan, Rodziah and Yaakob, Razali (2013) Blog quality model. International Journal of Web Based Communities, 9 (1). pp. 25-50. ISSN 1477-8394; ESSN: 1741-8216 10.1504/IJWBC.2013.051293
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