Sat 08 Jan. 2005

Weblog Service Providing Study

A Master Dissertation by Markus Westner - August 2004 (PDF)

Weblog Service Providing: Identification of functional requirements and evaluation of existing weblog services in German and English languages:

…identify functional requirements that contribute to the level of acceptance and use of weblog services. Therefore it employs a qualitative-quantitative research approach. Based on literature and interviews, the report identifies and ranks functional requirements for weblog services from a user’s perspective. 29 of these requirements are considered to be the most significant ones. They are categorised according to the content creation process on weblogs using the categories “Community”, “Content Creation”, “Content Management”, “Content Interaction”, “Content Rendering”, and “Security”. The resulting criteria catalogue makes it possible to evaluate a sample of 77 weblog services in English and German languages regarding the features they implement.

(via le Vrang & Westner)