The Int. Conference on Weblogs and Social Media will be held on March 26-28, 2007 in Boulder, Colorado. They commented that , "Continuing the tradition from the WWE'06workshop, we are once again offering a large blog dataset to conference participants. The data release comprises a complete set of weblog posts collected by Nielsen BuzzMetrics for May 2006 (consisting of about 14M posts from 3M weblogs). The data set includes the full content of the posts plus mark-up and represents an unprecedented collection for blog researchers. Our hope is that a communal dataset, approached from many different directions, will yield many interesting results. More information on the dataset, which is available for immediate download, can be found at their site.
Google and Microsoft are among the sponsors. They are also calling for papers that make use of this data (or toehrs I imagine). The key dates are:
Submissions: December 8, 2006
Acceptance Notifications: February 2, 2007
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