WWE-2006 Weblog Datashare format
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- The dataset consists of about 10M weblog posts from 1M weblogs,
  dated from July 7, 2005 - July 24, 2005 and collected by Intelliseek,
  Inc.

- The data is in XML format; there is one XML file per day.

- Caveats:

  * Parse the XML in <post>....</post> chunks as there is the
    occasional XML error

  * Date/time are not normalized to a uniform time zone, so interpret
    dates with care

  * There are association errors in the data; in less than 2% of the
    posts, the permalink, title, author and/or date will be
    incorrectly associated with the content of the post

- Data is released in conjuntion with the 3rd Annual Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem
  http://www.blogpulse.com/www2006-workshop/
  
- To obtain a copy of the data, sign and fax the datashare individual
  agreement form to Intelliseek:
  http://www.blogpulse.com/www2006-workshop/datashare-agreement.pdf


Format of the feed:

<feed>

  <post>

    <weblog_url>weblog url</weblog_url>

    <weblog_title>title of the weblog 
	(defaults to weblog url if title not found)
    </weblog_title>

    <permalink>permalink for the post 
	(defaults to weblog url if permalink not found)
    </permalink>

    <post_title>title of the post</post_title>

    <author_name>author of the post (may be empty or missing)</author_name>

    <date_posted>date of publication of the post</date_posted>

    <time_posted>time of publication of the post in format HHMMSS 
	(defaults to 000000 if unknown)
    </time_posted>

    <content>content of the post</content>

    <outlinks>
      <outlink>
        <type>type of outlink: either "weblog" or "press"</type>
        <url>url in href of post content</url>
        <site>if type=="weblog", site is the parent weblog for the permlink url; 
	      if type=="press", site is the news portal hosting the news article
	</site>
      </outlink>
    </outlinks>

    <tags>
      <tag>tag/category associated with post</tag>
    </tags>

  </post>

</feed>