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Wednesday, April 16, 2003 |
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Research on Weblogs 2 interesting pieces of research on weblogs : 1. From Seb : Results of Seb's "weblogs and knowledge sharing" survey 2. From Lilia - work in progress - current study on Blogging Adoption 1. Results of Seb's "weblogs and knowledge sharing" survey Long-time readers of this blog will recall that I have been conducting a survey of weblog use for knowledge sharing. 176 people have heeded my call and answered the survey that was graciously hosted by Blogstreet. As promised, here's the data and the first pie charts to come out of the oven: Seb's "weblogs and knowledge sharing" survey results. Unfortunately I don't have time to provide an analysis right now, but the result I personally find the most interesting is in the answers to question #16 and #17 - they suggest that weblogs provide a unique opportunity to create meaningful links between people in different fields. This correlates with my personal experience as well. I believe that deep insights often come out of such occasions for "creative friction". The wiki pies aren't ready yet, but it shouldn't take too long. Great stuff Seb ... i can't agree with you more about creative friction. Reminds me of a favourite : "You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star" Nietzche. I also find answers to questions 6 and 7 interesting ... the blog sphere can be a tremendous source of information exchange. 2. Blogging adoption questionnaires The goal of this study is to understand factors that support or inhibit adoption of blogging by comparing bloggers and "would be bloggers". I would appreciate if you can spend some of your time answering my questions. I estimate that it should take between 10 and 25 minutes (I took me 15 minutes). - if you have a weblog - http://blog.mathemagenic.com/blogtalk/blogger.htm - if you don't have a weblog - http://blog.mathemagenic.com/blogtalk/wouldbe.htm It took me all of 10 minutes to fill in the survey ... it made me really pause and reflect on my reasons for blogging. All of you bloggers and non-bloggers should see this. I look forward to seeing the results Lilia, and the very best for your paper.
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Blogs and Conversations
I've been wondering about the 'comments' link on blogs ... the youth and teeny blogs seem to encourage comments and conversation much more than any other segment of bloggers. (no hard data here .. just an observation). I sense a certain hesitancy or reticence to writing comments on blogs from other segments. Makes me wonder whether the old 'rules' of blogging in fact vitiate in some manner, the start of a two-way exchange. Many blogs seem intimidating, especially for those 'outside' the established circles, and somehow one is uncomfortable about starting a conversation, or adding a comment. I kind of like the Ryze guestbook ... its a really warm way of encouraging people to start a conversation. Obviously, once the dialogue has started it would then move into other structures like multimedia conversations and even face-to-face, if so desired. Or IM boards like zonkboard could be a great tool for encouraging dialogue .. yet it seems 'uncool' (unless you're a teeny networker) to have a guestbook type of board at your blog. My two-bits as a newbie blogger only just discovering this space !
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