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    <pub:abstract><![CDATA[Blogs have become a means by which new ideas and information spreads rapidly on the web. 
They often discuss the latest trends and echo with reactions on different events in the world. 
The collective wisdom present on the blogosphere is invaluable for market researchers 
and companies launching new products. In this paper, we validate the effectiveness of some of the
influence models on the blogosphere. We validate the robustness of different heuristics in 
presence of splogs or spam blogs on the web. Experiments also show how PageRank based 
heuristics could be used to select an influential set of bloggers such that we could maximize 
the spread of information on the blogosphere.
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