Moreno Political Blogs Network
A Political blogosphere (US 2004 election) dataset of 1,224 nodes and 19,025 edges, collected by Adamic & Glance via blog crawl. Each record contains directed edges: True, weighted: False, signed: False. This directed network contains front-page hyperlinks between blogs in the context of the 2004 US election. A node represents a blog and an edge represents a hyperlink between two blogs.. Suitable for political polarization, community detection, information diffusion.
Cite this dataset at
moreno-blogs.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.
Computed over the full corpus.
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
- 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
- Region
- United States · North America (inferred: named in the description)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- http://moreno.ss.uci.edu/data.html#blogs unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 48.7 KB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
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://moreno-blogs.echo.directory/
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, moreno-blogs.echo.directory/.