The Web Mining Lab is a research group consisting faculty members, post-doc researchers and graduate students, motivated to “Mine the Web, Mine the Mind” (http://weblab.com.cityu.edu.hk).  Using computer crawling and data mining techniques, the group collects and analyzes large-scale data from the Internet to explore the structure, content, and usage of the web.  Research on web structure focuses on the topology of national webs with Chinese web as a case, based on hyperlinks among 800 million Chinese web pages.  Preliminary results have pointed to a “Teapot Graph” of the Chinese web (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1367692).  Research on web content involves the sustainability of blogs, the evolution and controllability of social networks in online environment, and studies of other Web 2.0 applications.  Research on web usage centers around the Hong Kong Internet Project (http://newmedia.cityu.edu.hk/hkip), a longitudinal survey of Internet use in Hong Kong from 2000 to 2008 that has served a founding member of the Asia-Pacific Internet Research Alliance (http://www.apira.org).  The projects have been funded by the Competitive Earmarked Research Grants from Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Strategic Research Grants from City University of Hong Kong, Research Grants from the Centre for Communication Research of City University of Hong Kong, and other sources.  The Lab has involved interdisciplinary collaborations with partners in science and engineering, including the China Network Information Center (http://www.cnnic.cn), the Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Lab at Peking University (http://cnds.pku.edu.cn), and the Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks at City University of Hong Kong (http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~cccn/).  Members of the Lab have presented their findings in SSCI-, SCI-, and EI-listed publications.