The submission deadline for the Third International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is just three weeks away. To inspire yourself to work on a submission, you can check out videos from the 2008 ICWSM which are online at Videolectures.net. Here are highlights.

• Best paper: Travis Kriplean, Ivan Beschastnikh, David McDonald, Wikipedian Self-Governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens
• Invited talk: Brad Fitzpatrick, Decentralization and Interop: past, present, future
• Invited talk: David Sifry, Scaling Innovation in a Network Effect World
• Invited talk: Marc Smith, Social dimension of social media
• Tutorial: Mary McGlohon, Graph Mining Techniques for Social Media Analysis
• Tutorial: Jan Wiebe, Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis
• James Caverlee, A Large-Scale Study of MySpace: Observations and Implications for Online Social Networks
• Aaditeshwar Seth, Jie Zhang, A Social Network Based Approach to Personalized Recommendation of Participatory Media Content
• Michael Gamon, Danyel Fisher, Sumit Basu, Dmitriy Belenko, Matthew Hurst, Arnd Christian König, BLEWS: Using Blogs to Provide Context for News Articles
• Jiang Yang, Lada Adamic, Mark Ackerman : Competing to Share Expertise: the Taskcn Knowledge Sharing Community
• Jaime Arguello, Jonathan Elsas, Jamie Callan, Jaime Carbonel : Document Representation and Query Expansion Models for Blog Recommendation
• Noor Ali-Hasan, Exploring Social Media Scenarios for the Television
• Hikaru Yamamoto, Naohiro Matsumura, Daisuke Tomozawa, Finding Influencers and Consumer Insights in the Blogosphere
• Mikhail Bautin, Lohit Vijayarenu, Steven Skiena, International Sentiment Analysis for News and Blogs
• Ramesh Nallapati, William Cohen, Link-PLSA-LDA: A new unsupervised model for topics and influence of blogs
• Ian Soboroff, On TREC Blog Track
• Jason Kessler, Polling the Blogosphere: a Rule-Based Approach to Belief Classification
• Yi-Chia Wang, William Cohen, Mahesh Joshi, Carolyn Rosé : Recovering Implicit Thread Structure in Newsgroup Style Conversations
• Danyel Fisher, Marc Smith, Tammara Combs Turner, Space Planning for Online Community
• Kristin Stecher, Scott Counts, Spontaneous Inference of Personality Traits from Online Profiles
• Gina Walejko, Thomas Ksiazek, The Politics of Sourcing: A Study of Journalistic Practices in the Blogosphere
• Nairan Ramírez-Esparza, Cindy Chung, Ewa Kacewicz, James W. Pennebaker, The Psychology of Word Use in Depression Forums in English and in Spanish
• Kristin Stecher, Scott Counts, Thin Slices of Online Profile Attributes
• David Evans, Sam Gosling, Anthony Carroll, What Elements of an Online Social Networking Profile Predict Target-Rater Agreement in Personality?
• Zareen Syed, Wikipedia as an Ontology for Describing Documents

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