Achtung - das Bamblog wird seit Mitte Oktober 2007 nicht mehr aktualisiert. Bitte besuchen Sie mein neues Weblog unter http://www.schmidtmitdete.de. Danke! - Please note that this blog is no longer active. You can find my new blog at http://www.schmidtmitdete.de. Thanks for visiting!
Over the last two days, I had an interesting conversation with David Brake who is PhD researcher at Media@LSE, Internet consultant and Journalist. David sent a couple of questions about Blog Statistics to the AOIR-Mailing List, and I provided him with some results of the "Wie ich blogge?!"-Survey. His PhD thesis deals with "Private Lives Lived in Public: Weblogs and Self Performance" and includes a number of in-depth interviews with personal bloggers. I’m looking forward to his results and observations, since the practices of personal bloggers still don’t get the academic attention they deserve - most studies focus on the similarities or differences of Weblogs and Journalism or on the consequences of Weblogs for organizational communication. On a smaller scale, I did similar research when I interviewed a couple of twoday.net-Bloggers in early 2005 during my research fellowship in Krems/Vienna.
Our exchange also convinced me to make the results of my survey available to an international (i.e. english-speaking) audience as soon as possible. After I’m done with putting together the working paper with first results in German, I’m going to translate the text (or parts of it, at least) to English and publish them here. Starting from that, I’d like to submit a paper to publication in an international journal, but that will take some time.. Right now, just some basic information on the survey (since David might refer to my site soon.. ;-)):
The online survey "Wie ich blogge?!" was conducted in October 2005, in cooperation with blog providers blog.de, blogg.de, blogigo.de, twoday.net and Six Apart Germany. Questions covered various aspects of blogging practices, from motivations and content over issues of anonymity and identity to reading habits, as well as basic sociodemographic information. A special part of the questionnaire aimed at ex-bloggers (e.g. asking for reasons for stopping to blog).
Sampling was in part based on an E-Mail invitation to registered users of twoday.net (n=980) and blogg.de (n=96), in part on self-selection through a link banner that circulated through the german-speaking blogosphere (n=4.171). 83,9 percent of respondents are active bloggers, 11,8 percent are "readers only", and 4,3 percent are ex-bloggers (who still read blogs, though). The majority comes from Germany (81,5%), Austria (9,6%) and Switzerland (5,5%). Due to the sampling process, the results will not be statistically representative for the german-speaking blogosphere, but will give a good explorative indication about the state of blogging within those countries.
More to come in the next weeks; there is a special feed for my english postings here.
[…] More to come in the next weeks; there is a special feed for my english postings here. […]
[…] Jan Schmidt wrote: “I agree that Blogroll links are not as well an indicator of actual blogging practices than links in postings and comments. Just to give an indication of blogrolling practices, here are a couple of findings from a large-scale (N=5.247) survey of the german-speaking blogosphere we’ve conducted in October 2005 (alas, not published in english yet; some more info: http://www.bamberg-gewinnt.de/wordpress/archives/348). […]
[…] I just gave my talk on "Bloggers as trendsetters" at the Euroblog Symposium, presenting some findings of our "Wie ich blogge?!"-Survey. In a way, I had the toughest spot - being the first to talk on the morning after the socializing dinner (which, of course, implies not only nice food, but lots of beer as well.. ). But on the other hand, the audience is awake from having coffee for breakfast, so I won’t complain. The talk went well (but was too long, I guess), and since I’ve mentioned the Bamblog URL at the end, there are probably some conference participants coming to check out my Weblog. Welcome! […]
[…] Jan Schmidt, der die Blogger-Studie “Wie ich blogge?!” vorgestellt hat. Über 4000 Blogger nahmen teil an der Umfrage, die im Oktober 2005 stattfand. Mittels eines speziellen Fragesets konnte z.B. festgestellt werden, dass unter den Bloggern besonders viele Trendsetter aktiv sind. Trendsetter sind Personen, die aufgrund ihres psychisch-sozialen Profils in Bezug auf Konsum, Verhaltensweisen und Gewohnheiten, Einstellungen anderen (Trendfollowers?) voraus sind. […]
[…] There have some fine hardblogging performances @ the EuroBlog2006 Symposium in Stuttgart last week. I have already blogged about Elizabeth Albrycht’s insightful key note [PDF], the viennese-style presentation [PDF] of the guys from knallgrau and my performance [PDF] in this blogpost. On Saturday morning Jan Schmidt kicked of the second day of the symposium with a very interesting talk [PDF] about the key findings of his “Wie ich blogge 2005” survey. […]
[…] There have some fine hardblogging performances @ the EuroBlog2006 Symposium in Stuttgart last week. I have already blogged about Elizabeth Albrycht’s insightful key note [PDF], the viennese-style presentation [PDF] of the guys from knallgrau and my performance [PDF] in this blogpost. On Saturday morning Jan Schmidt kicked of the second day of the symposium with a very interesting talk [PDF] about the key findings of his “Wie ich blogge 2005” survey. […]
[…] It took longer than I originally planned and wished for, but I finally came around to put together an english paper with some key results of my "Wie ich blogge?!" survey (background information). It is a first draft, based on a presentation I just held at the GOR 2006 conference, and I’m planning to submit it to a journal. So I’m really looking forward to getting your feedback on my thoughts, line of reasoning and on language. Oh, and since I’d like to get to know those who are interested in the topic, please send me a mail (jan.schmidt [at] split.uni-bamberg.de) if you want a copy of the .pdf… […]
Jeg hilser til klovnen. Jeg liker klovner veldig godt! Jeg har vört põ sirkus og sett klovner.
Hmmm. Ist das jetzt Spam, oder eine enthusiastische Meinungsäußerung?
Da Backlog - eher Spam. Ich kann für Wordpress Spam Karma 2 sehr empfehlen ,-)
Ja, aber es ist ja im Kommentar nirgends ein Link gesetzt??
[…] While my first presentation will be more theoretical/conceptual, the second (abstract here) will focus on empirical findings from the "Wie ich blogge?!"-survey. So it might actually be interesting to listen to both of them, since it will give you a sense of the "greater picture" of our research in Bamberg. This will also be an opportunity for me to actually write english papers on these topics, thus reaching out to a greater audience and to international perspectives. Another thing I’m looking forward (apart from other presentations and the socializing of course) is the pre-conference workshop on "Social network analysis and its application to Internet research", to be held by Prof. Dr. Chris Snijders (Eindhoven University of Technology). So I’m looking forward to an intense and interesting conference! […]
[…] [1] An english paper on the key results of the survey is currently under review at a journal. Some general information in english can be found here. [view academic citations] [hide academic citations] Bitte wie folgt zitieren: Schmidt, Jan (2006): . In: Bamblog [Weblog], 9 Dez. 2006. Online-Publikation: http://www.bamberg-gewinnt.de/wordpress/archives/615. Abrufdatum: December 9, 2006 Alternativ die APA citation: Schmidt, Jan. (2006). . Retrieved December 9, 2006, from Bamblog Web site: http://www.bamberg-gewinnt.de/wordpress/archives/615 […]
man hat mich bei wie-ich gesper konnt ihr was machen bitte
danke
Mohjoh21: Nein, können wir nicht. Man landet zwar bei einer Google-Suche nach “Wie ich” auf dieser Seite, aber unsere Umfrage hat mit dem Portal www.wie-ich.de nichts zu tun.