Blog Authorship Corpus — Male Bloggers (23–27)

A Blogger.com (2004) dataset of 1,588 bloggers, 1,861 posts, collected by Schler et al. for AAAI 2006. Each record contains blog post text, gender, age, industry, astrological sign. Historical blog corpus from 2004 with rich metadata per blogger (gender, age, industry, astrological sign). Balanced across age groups and genders.. Suitable for authorship attribution, stylistic analysis, demographic language variation, historical NLP.

#Authorship attribution#Blog authorship corpus#Demographics

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1,588 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

ageμ 24.718 ± 1.416
min 23max 27
7.3
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
7.9
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
2004liketimeurllinkpeopleknowdonthinkgoodgoingdaygotworklifewaynewaugustthingswantjulyjunerightlovetodaylittlethingworldsaidnightgreatwentfeelneedcomegodmanyearslongfindbetterdidnhomeletthoughtlookplaceblogyearmaybefriends
Topic clusters

Topic 0

like
know
love
time
think
life
feel
thing

Topic 1

urllink
time
think
know
new
post
like
good

Topic 2

bush
people
urllink
kerry
war
president
iraq
think

Topic 3

god
jesus
church
life
know
black
think
christ

Topic 4

urllink
file
gmail
use
linux
version
server
system

Topic 5

time
people
like
india
come
know
start
look

Topic 6

work
time
company
like
know
want
good
life

Topic 7

work
time
like
thing
friend
people
day
good

Topic 8

day
week
time
work
good
like
think
people

Topic 9

hike
beach
car
time
day
work
good
lisa

Topic 10

like
know
night
girl
think
want
come
time

Topic 11

day
work
know
today
like
think
thing
good
Show all 15 topics

Topic 12

band
music
song
play
like
time
think
good

Topic 13

benny
resentment
limit
application
accept
like
weird
think

Topic 14

game
team
player
play
year
season
good
league
Top hashtags
#566
#158
#244
#00000035
#66666635
#0120
#319
#0218
#0318
#0418
#0517
#0617
#0717
#0817
#1016
#0915
#413
#69
#175
#75

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
blog-authorship-male-20s
Authors
Schler, Jonathan; Koppel, Moshe; Argamon, S.; Pennebaker, J.
Year
2006
Source paper
Effects of Age and Gender on Blogging
License
Free for non-commercial research (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
Records
1,588
Languages
en
Collected
2004 (2000s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://huggingface.co/datasets/barilan/blog_authorship_corpus link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 182.7 MB across 4043 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}
}

@inproceedings{schler2006,
  title     = {Effects of Age and Gender on Blogging},
  author    = {Schler, Jonathan and Koppel, Moshe and Argamon, S. and Pennebaker, J.},
  year      = {2006},
  booktitle = {AAAI Spring Symposium: Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Schler, J., Koppel, M., Argamon, S., & Pennebaker, J. (2006). Blog Authorship Corpus — Male Bloggers (23–27) [Data set]. https://blog-authorship-male-20s.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Schler, Jonathan, et al. Blog Authorship Corpus — Male Bloggers (23–27). 2006, blog-authorship-male-20s.echo.directory/.

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