What Brings Users to Blogs?

Billosaur writes "The Center for Citizen Media Blog has an interesting overview of the Collaborative News Survey 'Hype versus Reality', detailing the results of a study done by Hsing Wei from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government on why users are attracted to collaborative news, commenting and blogging sites. Among the conclusions of the study are that people who use these sites are 'mostly young and male, especially those who visit technology-related sites, looking for 'a fix of unique, informative fun,' and 'filling in the blanks' left by traditional news sources. Or is it just because it beats working?"

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Serves the desire to be important

[EmbeddedJanitor]

You set up a blog and write about yourself etc and feel important when people respond. Podcasters are pretty much the same. It's that whole 15 minutes of fame thing, only longer and more visual.

Bloggers & podcasters get seriously up themselves and eachother about this.