Moreno Political Blogs Network
Blogs network, a network of the Koblenz Network Collection (KONECT) (Blog–blog hyperlinks). KONECT's file for it has the header `% asym unweighted`, i.e. a directed network with weights marked `unweighted`. This copy holds 19,025 links among 1,224 nodes.
Cite this dataset at
political-blogs-2004.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 1,224 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Record
- Catalog key
moreno-blogs- Authors
- Adamic, Lada A.; Glance, Natalie
- Year
- 2005
- Source paper
- The political blogosphere and the 2004 US election: Divided they blog
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1145/1134271.1134277
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 1,224
- Nodes
- 1,224
- Edges
- 19,025 (directed)
- Nodes are
- blog
- Edges are
- hyperlink
- Attributes
- nodes have attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2004 (2000s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Provenance
- Originally published at
- http://konect.cc/networks/moreno_blogs/ unverified
- Original files as received
- The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 48.7 KB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json. For use, start with the data package below.
- Data package
- Version 1.0.0 of this dataset as an ECHO Data Package: edges (19,025 rows).
- Structure
- Directed network
Citations
The political blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. election: divided they blog
Lada A. Adamic, N. Glance
Journal Article · LinkKDD '05 · 2005
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-11-04.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{adamic2005,
title = {The political blogosphere and the 2004 US election: Divided they blog},
author = {Adamic, Lada A. and Glance, Natalie},
year = {2005},
note = {In Proc. Int. Workshop on Link Discov., pages 36–43, 2005.}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Adamic, L. A., & Glance, N. (2005). Moreno Political Blogs Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/1134271.1134277
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Adamic, Lada A., and Natalie Glance. Moreno Political Blogs Network. 2005, doi.org/10.1145/1134271.1134277.