Comments on: Your help needed to develop “blogger typology” http://mediaczar.com/blog/2008/12/your-help-needed-to-develop-blogger-typology/ a blog by mat morrison Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:25:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: The trouble with corporate bloggers « Clicking and Screaming http://mediaczar.com/blog/2008/12/your-help-needed-to-develop-blogger-typology/comment-page-1/#comment-609 The trouble with corporate bloggers « Clicking and Screaming Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:37:32 +0000 http://mediaczar.com/blog/?p=146#comment-609 [...] Regular visitors to Clicking & Screaming will know that PN Digital is working on a new blogger typology at the [...] [...] Regular visitors to Clicking & Screaming will know that PN Digital is working on a new blogger typology at the [...]

]]> By: Blogger typology: quantitative analysis step 1 | Mediaczar http://mediaczar.com/blog/2008/12/your-help-needed-to-develop-blogger-typology/comment-page-1/#comment-516 Blogger typology: quantitative analysis step 1 | Mediaczar Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:06:24 +0000 http://mediaczar.com/blog/?p=146#comment-516 [...] published the first dump of survey and “blog metrics” data from the blogger questionnaire as a spreadsheet on Google Docs. Many, many thanks to all of you who volunteered your [...] [...] published the first dump of survey and “blog metrics” data from the blogger questionnaire as a spreadsheet on Google Docs. Many, many thanks to all of you who volunteered your [...]

]]> By: A simple perl script to interrogate the Technorati API | Mediaczar http://mediaczar.com/blog/2008/12/your-help-needed-to-develop-blogger-typology/comment-page-1/#comment-505 A simple perl script to interrogate the Technorati API | Mediaczar Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:09:53 +0000 http://mediaczar.com/blog/?p=146#comment-505 [...] (for instance when I’m doing the research for the blogger typology) you need to get a whole load of Technorati data for a whole load of [...] [...] (for instance when I’m doing the research for the blogger typology) you need to get a whole load of Technorati data for a whole load of [...]

]]> By: Thinking About Why I Blog « Chutzpah http://mediaczar.com/blog/2008/12/your-help-needed-to-develop-blogger-typology/comment-page-1/#comment-495 Thinking About Why I Blog « Chutzpah Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:36:09 +0000 http://mediaczar.com/blog/?p=146#comment-495 [...]   I missed the boat on the contest, but the question still intrigued me. Then Mat reached out and asked the community to fill out a survey on why they blog. And then Simon wrote a very thought provoking post on his new approach to [...] [...]   I missed the boat on the contest, but the question still intrigued me. Then Mat reached out and asked the community to fill out a survey on why they blog. And then Simon wrote a very thought provoking post on his new approach to [...]

]]> By: Mat Morrison http://mediaczar.com/blog/2008/12/your-help-needed-to-develop-blogger-typology/comment-page-1/#comment-476 Mat Morrison Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:09:33 +0000 http://mediaczar.com/blog/?p=146#comment-476 Peter -- your list is most exciting: our team has never defined the term "blog" to our own satisfaction. The <a href="http://porternovelli.typepad.com/pneo/2008/05/what-is-a-blog.html" rel="nofollow">only definition</a> that I'm even vaguely happy with shares with yours the common distinction of attempting to define blogs by a set of shared features. Yours, I must say, deserves more thought than mine (which is in danger of seeming trite.) I shall give it proper consideration - where's the best place to continue this discussion? Incidentally, as I'm sure you've discovered, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia's definition</a> is weak, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Blog#Blogs_can_be_many_things2" rel="nofollow">discussion behind the page</a> doesn't really cover the issue much better. Peter — your list is most exciting: our team has never defined the term “blog” to our own satisfaction. The only definition that I’m even vaguely happy with shares with yours the common distinction of attempting to define blogs by a set of shared features. Yours, I must say, deserves more thought than mine (which is in danger of seeming trite.) I shall give it proper consideration – where’s the best place to continue this discussion?

Incidentally, as I’m sure you’ve discovered, Wikipedia’s definition is weak, and the discussion behind the page doesn’t really cover the issue much better.

]]> By: Peter Hirsch http://mediaczar.com/blog/2008/12/your-help-needed-to-develop-blogger-typology/comment-page-1/#comment-472 Peter Hirsch Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:22:08 +0000 http://mediaczar.com/blog/?p=146#comment-472 Well, how very interesting. For this is precisely the question I have been studying for the past three weeks. There is no question that we need this taxonomy, but it is also important not to lose site of what all blogs potentially share that other "content envelopes" don't. Arguably a blog is (if nothing else): 1) a digital space accessible on line with a fixed address infinitely extensible in time and capacity 2) A content envelope "owned" by a named individual or group capable of incorporating inputs from an infinite number of additional human and automatic participants 3) A content envelope that is medium-agnostic, capable of housing text,still image, moving image,sound, numerical data and code. 4) A content envelope with a meta existence consisting of links, tags, recommendations and other adhesions What did I leave out? Well, how very interesting. For this is precisely the question I have been studying for the past three weeks. There is no question that we need this taxonomy, but it is also important not to lose site of what all blogs potentially share that other “content envelopes” don’t. Arguably a blog is (if nothing else):
1) a digital space accessible on line with a fixed address infinitely extensible in time and capacity
2) A content envelope “owned” by a named individual or group capable of incorporating inputs from an infinite number of additional human and automatic participants
3) A content envelope that is medium-agnostic, capable of housing text,still image, moving image,sound, numerical data and code.
4) A content envelope with a meta existence consisting of links, tags, recommendations and other adhesions

What did I leave out?

]]> By: Referring to “this cell” using Excel conditional formatting | Mediaczar http://mediaczar.com/blog/2008/12/your-help-needed-to-develop-blogger-typology/comment-page-1/#comment-460 Referring to “this cell” using Excel conditional formatting | Mediaczar Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:40:17 +0000 http://mediaczar.com/blog/?p=146#comment-460 [...] Excel’s conditional formatting feature is a boon to heavy spreadsheet users like me. It is a flexible and powerful tool that (among other things) lets me highlight data according to a set of rules so that I can easily spot the interesting bits in what would otherwise be an almost impossibly dense and meaningless cloud of numbers. Here’s an example; a table of the correlations between 32 different statements (taken from some ongoing work looking at a simple blogger typology.) [...] [...] Excel’s conditional formatting feature is a boon to heavy spreadsheet users like me. It is a flexible and powerful tool that (among other things) lets me highlight data according to a set of rules so that I can easily spot the interesting bits in what would otherwise be an almost impossibly dense and meaningless cloud of numbers. Here’s an example; a table of the correlations between 32 different statements (taken from some ongoing work looking at a simple blogger typology.) [...]

]]> By: timhoang (timhoang) http://mediaczar.com/blog/2008/12/your-help-needed-to-develop-blogger-typology/comment-page-1/#comment-629 timhoang (timhoang) Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:05:17 +0000 http://mediaczar.com/blog/?p=146#comment-629 Blogger survey. Help needed http://tinyurl.com/926rkw Blogger survey. Help needed http://tinyurl.com/926rkw

]]> By: Whatleydude (James Whatley) http://mediaczar.com/blog/2008/12/your-help-needed-to-develop-blogger-typology/comment-page-1/#comment-632 Whatleydude (James Whatley) Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:39:31 +0000 http://mediaczar.com/blog/?p=146#comment-632 Whoops! See! I *am* tired! <a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/MediaCzar">@MediaCzar</a>'s survey is *actually* here: http://tinyurl.com/926rkw (Sorry! - clearly too much burnout) Whoops! See! I *am* tired! @MediaCzar’s survey is *actually* here: http://tinyurl.com/926rkw (Sorry! – clearly too much burnout)

]]> By: Kerry Gaffney http://mediaczar.com/blog/2008/12/your-help-needed-to-develop-blogger-typology/comment-page-1/#comment-404 Kerry Gaffney Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:22:33 +0000 http://mediaczar.com/blog/?p=146#comment-404 @Dave again there's always going to be another group, the blogs they should be reading @Mat Meant to point a post out from BL Ochman (http://www.whatsnextblog.com/archives/2008/12/proposal_bloggers_should_pay_readers_per_post.asp) which discusses monetization of blogging and divides bloggers into trhee groups: Those who blog for personal brand, group blogs and professional bloggers - not sure I agree with the groupings but its something else to consider. Something else we also need to think about is how conciously honest people will be in response to the survey. @Dave again there’s always going to be another group, the blogs they should be reading

@Mat Meant to point a post out from BL Ochman (http://www.whatsnextblog.com/archives/2008/12/proposal_bloggers_should_pay_readers_per_post.asp) which discusses monetization of blogging and divides bloggers into trhee groups: Those who blog for personal brand, group blogs and professional bloggers – not sure I agree with the groupings but its something else to consider.

Something else we also need to think about is how conciously honest people will be in response to the survey.

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