Perseus weblog study (2)

Some follow-ups for Perseus weblog study

• Phil Wolff: summary and reasons for abandoned blogs
• Clay Shirky: on below-average abandonment rate of LiveJournal and writing vs. reading focus of analysis (see also comments for more explanations about LiveJournal and use of survey results)
• Oliver Wrede: publishing ‘personal’ vs. ‘professional’ life and stopping blogging
• Jim Elve: flaws, explanations of abandoned blogs
• Nick Douglas: a bit on dinamics of switching from hosting to your own sever and community
• Jim McGee: ‘This is a perfect application of Sturgeon’s Law – “90% of everything is crud.” ‘

Check links to the survey at Blogdex if you want more.

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2003/10/11.html#a793; comments are here.

• Social computing symposium: BlogTrace demo
• PhD: experiential research and everyday grounded theory
• Weblog research ethics

Tagged as: blog research, Russia