Perseus weblog study (2).

Some follow-ups for Perseus weblog study

• Phil Wolff: summary and reasons for abandoned blogs
• Clay Shirky: on below-average abondonment 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.

[Mathemagenic]
4:59:36 PM    
  

How to make your weblog more valuable to readers.

Great explanation by John Lawlor of the levels of aggregation, analysis, comment, and recommendation possible in a weblog, how to manage them, and their value to readers.

[John Lawlor]

4:56:45 PM