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.

Seb follows Salon by posting data taken from bloggers on a recent survey hosted by blogstreet.

A couple of weeks ago, I posted, and e-mailed to about fifty Salon bloggers, a six-question survey asking Salon/Radio users for their opinions on the product, and on the business of blogging in general. I received a dozen responses. That's probably not enough to be representative, but the responses were full of wonderful advice for newbie and sophomore bloggers. They also contained some strong messages and creative ideas for both Salon and Radio Userland. A heartfelt 'thank you' to those who responded. Here is what you said (I've posted this in 6 pieces to allow readers to post individual Comments on each of the 6 questions): Q1 How do you publicize your blog? Most respondents do little or nothing, but are hungry for ideas on this subject. Most common method is to cruise Recently Updated Salon blogs and post comments to updated blogs, with your blog's URL at the bottom, and sometimes with a link to one of your recent posts. Several of you have other websites and link to your blog from them. Several of you send e-mails, with your blog's URL, to blog authors you like, with compliments about their blogs and/or questions about your own blog. Several of you include your blog URL in your signature on every e-mail you send. Several of you update your blog as often as possible, especially during prime early-morning and late-afternoon hours, to get to the top of the Recently Updated lists. Several of you talk about, or blogroll, others' blogs on your own, to get on their Referrer's list and hence seduce them to visit your site. A few of you synthesize other bloggers' work by either summarizing or anthologizing (with attribution of course) what others have been saying (e.g. critiques, distillations, 'best posts of the week' lists). A few of you have joined webrings and other blogger affinity groups. A few of you buy ads on sites like Daypop and Metafilter. A few of you post occasionally on hot topics with keywords that will either get you traffic from Google or pique readers' intellectual or prurient interest.

Interesting mulitpart survey by Radio users at Salon... Do read if you use Radio, to see how other users feel about it.. I still have to digest this. It seems that folks want a easier way to make new themes and would like more tech help from Userland when stuff doesn't work.