Blog Trust Model for Blog Readers

Social network plays a major role in today´s internet technology. FOAF, community, Blogs etc are the few top level social network today. Weblogs (blogs) are today´s prominent social media on the internet which allows blogger and the user to interact efficiently with their knowledge, personal details, general information, views and experiences. Because of the popularity and easy access of blogs, most of the people started using the blogs for various purposes. Since the blogs are open and free to all, any one can write or read a blog. The problem is to what extend the user can trust the blogs. Blog is a technical media of knowledge sharing between professional technical bloggers. They publish various technical contents which is very new to blog readers. It creates some incredible questions to blogs readers. So it is necessary for the researchers to address this issue to assure the blog reader that the blog is credible. To address this issue we develop a tool which analysis the blogs with some parameters. It provides the user whether the blog is trustable or not. We analyze the trust based upon situations, actors, knowledge, importance and utility of blogs.