Its official. After growing rather suspicious over the last few months, I was becoming very concerned that the rumours were true -- that people don't read livejournal on the weekend ( Read more... )

   Every year in the general area of mid-June I've examined the statistics of blogology. I hate to let traditions die, so I ran the numbers again this year.
   Additionally, it has come to my attention that many blogs see rankings on a webpage called Technorati.com as the premier measure of how successful they are. As far as I can tell these ( Read more... )

   This entry is post-dated from Friday, in preparation for my expected death on 06-18-06.

For 30 in 30 I in 2004 I conducting a groundbreaking research study in the field of blogology, compiling a range of statistics on a sample group of bloggers based on data available on the userinfo pages. A year later I did a follow up during 30 in 30 II. ( Read more... )

   Tonight's entry was supposed to be super simple because rather than spend time on an entry today I've been looking for a job. Like any big project, this first involves perusing the internet, the academic equivalent of getting into a pool by inching in from the shallow end -- one gets to experience all the anticipated ill effects ("its so cold ( Read more... )

   A year ago in the study published in my 18th 30 in 30 entry I found that otimus had no less than 750 people on his friends list, with 143 friends-of, and 49 livejournal entries. This gave him the whopping ratio of 5.2 to 1 friends/friend-of. A year later I ran the numbers again, and this time Otimus has 23 friends, 193 friends-of, and 37 entris. Whereas ( Read more... )

   As of yesterday this livejournal has existed exactly a year and a half. In that time there have been 484 entries made, 2,275 comments posted, and 2,791 comments received ( Read more... )

   In order to finish on schedule with the 30 in 30 thing I will need to make a post every 9.5 hours. I don't know how I got so far behind.

Anyway, continuing my scientific investigation of the blogosphere, I've done a study of 20 livejournals on my friends list1, based on numbers of entries, comments and other quantifiable information. The ( Read more... )