Being the Weblog community tracking device which

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform tracking after a prescribed time lapses even with respect to a community wherein a form largely varies in a different time zone because a temporal change of a member configuration or the number of persons of the community is large, like a community configured by Weblogs extensively distributed on the Internet.;SOLUTION: In this online community tracing method, at least one Weblog receiving trackback or a comment of a prescribed criterion or above about each Weblog community extracted at a certain time point T1 is set as a contributive member, and is stored in a database together with a contribution degree found from a frequency of the trackback and the comment in each contributive member (S1), and the Weblog community having a large total value of the contribution degree of the contributive member extracted in a contributive member information extraction step, and stored in the database at time T2 after the prescribed time lapses from the time T1 is retrieved (S2).;COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT