Prioritization of information quality criteria in the Blog context

The vast amount of information on the World Wide Web is created and published by many different types of providers. Unlike books and journals, most of this information is not subject to editing or peer review by experts. This lack of quality control and the explosion of web sites make the task of finding quality information on the web especially critical. Meanwhile new facilities for producing web pages such as Blogs make this issue more significant because Blogs have simple content management tools enabling non-experts to build easily updatable web diaries or online journals. On the other hand despite a decade of active research in information quality (IQ) there is no framework for measuring information quality on the Blogs yet. This paper attempts to evaluate and prioritize selected IQ criteria in the Weblog. The present study adapted the AHP methodology to the measurement of the selected IQ criteria priorities. The results shows there are significant difference for priorities in Blog context in compare of common Websites.