Somehow I missed Research on Blogging post by Sylvie Noël:
Lilia Efimova at Mathemagenic has been reporting on a little study she did on bloggers and would-be bloggers.
I wish she had added some demographic questions. I would have been curious to see the distribution of men and women bloggers as well as age distribution.
Other questions I would have liked to see: “do you use your blog for a single subject (eg work-related, strictly cinema, book reviews) or for several subjects?” and “do you use your blog to support your work or for personal reasons?” Sylvie made many relevant comments on the paper and helped me a lot with finding a better way to write. I agree with her comments: especially last two questions would be very valuable for the analysis.
I’m only learning to be a good researcher :)
Silvie also comments on the final version:
Other “future research” you might add in your conclusion: (1) exploring why bloggers cease to blog; (2) interviewing Web users who are not interested in blogging (but who are aware of the phenomenon). For ex., do bloggers cease because of technical reasons (points to problem with software) or because blogging is not meeting their needs or becaues they no longer have time (personal reasons).
In both cases there is a need for more elaborate strategy to find respondents. The one I used (mainly via my weblog) will not work. For someone who wants to study the first question I would suggest to start from weblog cemetery.
Tags: BlogTalk paperArchived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2003/05/10.html#a587; comments are here.
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