What Brings Users to Blogs?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday July 18, 2006 @08:22AM from the skewed-sample-populations dept.

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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Posting it on Slashdot!!! by Kris+Warkentin · 2006-07-18 08:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

http://www.cruftysite.com/blog

Thank you very much, I'm here all week.

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What brings users to blogs? by 10100111001 · 2006-07-18 09:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic

One way that some unscrupulous people bring users to their blogs is through shameless self-promotion.

BTW, my blog is at http://www.u4ya.ca/blog/.

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