On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Sashay wrote:
What I'd like to see a study explore is the ego/vanity aspects of blogging. I blog, but I do it more to sort out my own thoughts and catalogue sites and interesting net phenomenon. I don t' care as much about whether I get readers or not. However, I suspect many do care and I have to wonder if the wholesale adoption of RSS feeds pushed out to people are an attempt to feel your blogging time is justified by ensuring that your message is getting out there.
- Not to play the devil's advocate (which is some sort of a rhetorical trope since that's what I'm doing) - I have a feeling perhaps even the majority of bloggers would say the same. Why catalog online if not for open readership? I think there may be a distancing effect here; I remember a report years ago that the majority of workers who were interviewed said their jobs were temporary, even though they might have been at the same place for years. - Alan, blurring sociology with bad memory here