Searching for "Familiar Strangers" on Blogosphere: Problems and Challenges

In this paper, the authors examine familiar strangers on Blogosphere and issues of finding them. In daily life, familiar strangers, as coined by Stanley Milgram, do not know each other, but frequently exhibit some common patterns. Blogosphere is a part of the Web where bloggers post in individual or community blog sites. The nature of the Web is a scale-free network, which determines that a power law distribution applies to bloggers. That is, the majority bloggers are only connected with a small number of fellow bloggers, and these blogging groups are largely disconnected from each other.