Popularity and Focality in Weblogs’ Social Network

Nowadays users of the Web are encouraged to generate content on the Web by themselves. Weblogs are the most tools to do this. In fact Weblogs are one kind of social networks and they are one of the most important components in Web 2.0. The increasing growth of blogsphere implies that users need to know more popular blogs. This paper introduces a new algorithm for rankingWeblogs according to a link structure specific to the blogsphere. Our CRE-Rank algorithm tries to identify popular focal blogs. Popular blogs are those blogs which are more linked and commented, Focal blogs are those which users can access popular Weblogs from them.