As an anthropologist who spends many hours blogging, and reading blogs, i inevitably started wondering about the underlying impulses and motivations involved in the practice of blogging for those who participate? What does blogging actually offer in terms of expressive and communicative value? Are there any striking commonalities of culture, social status or demographics involved in the phenomenon?
So armed with these interests, I ask for your help! Please take the time to answer the following five questions. Your answers can be as brief or as long and detailed as you like. Thank you so much in advance, and remember that this is not a formal study, but mostly to connect with fellow bloggers and satisfy my curiosity. So have fun with it:
1. Why do you do blog? (feel free to be as expressive as you like)
2. How much time do you spend blogging per week, and how much time do you spend reading other blogs per week?
3. In your experience, what potential or actual benefits do you think blogging provides?
4. How long have you been blogging?
5. What is your background (roughly, in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, and occupation)?
Everyone who participates will be recognized, and hopefully rewarded for their time by getting exposure for their blogs or projects on the final results post and everywhere this study manifests in the blogoshpere. Thanks again!
[note: please provide a link or address to your blog so others can visit and connect with you]
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Hi! Thanks for stopping by my blog. Glad you enjoyed it. I'll do my best to answer your questions. Let me know if you need more information!
1. My main reason for blogging is its therapeutic value. While talking to friends and family help, there is something about writing out my thoughts and feelings that provides comfort as well as perspective. I put these in a blog because maybe there is someone out there who can relate - who might find comfort in knowing they are not alone. Sometimes people respond to my posts and then I don't feel as if I'm alone either.
2. My blogging time varies from week to week depending on my energy level which is affected by work and/or my state of mind (1-5 hours). As far as reading blogs, I typically spend 3-4 hours a week focusing mostly on my favorites.
3. In my experience, blogging has been a great stress management tool as well as a way to connect to other people who might be dealing with similar issues as me. When I went back to nursing school at the age of 32, I felt somewhat isolated so I started blogging. What I found was a whole network of non-traditional nursing students as well as nurses who provided moral support and advice. It was great!
4. I have been blogging for 8 years.
5. Here is my background:
Age - 40, gender - female, ethnicity - Filipino-American, and occupation - currently an RN (previously a technical recruiter for a large consulting firm)
Thanks for reading...
Marjorie
www.largemarj.com
The City Girl Chronicles
Thanks for commenting on my blog! I appreciate it.
1. I'm a Lit Studies major, so all I ever get to do is critical reading and writing, so blogging is my opportunity to be creative and funny in my scribbling.
2. I spend about 3-4 hours blogging per week, and about the same amount of time reading my favorites .
3. I think people will write a lot of things they'll never say, so I've gotten to know some people better through their writing than I have talking to them in person. I prefer getting to know people in person far above meeting them in a virtual reality setting, but blogging provides some insights that never come up in real life. Also, it's just a fun, great creative outlet.
4. I've been blogging for about two years.
5. I'm 21, female, born in Taiwan, adopted and raised in the States by Caucasian parents. I'm a student in my fourth year of college.
1.
I started blogging as a way of keeping my friends and family back home up to date with my life in the UK. A way of musing over the differences in the two countries, I suppose. It quickly became something else though, and now, although it is still about keeping family and friends up to date, it is also a way to vent, bring attention to things I find important/beautiful and good old exhibitionism I suppose.
2. My blogging times are usually equally spread out over he week, always in the morning, and I probably spend about 1 h a day on writing my own posts/reading other blogs. If I'm bored I often find myself spending a lot more time, clicking on links to other blogs via my friends pages. I have a solid network of blogging friends, many of them I know in real life, some of them have become friends since I started.
3. I find that blogging is a great creative outlet, with all the academic work I do it feels good to be able to just write for the sake of me. Making friends, and reading about other people's life is a bonus. To start with I only read my actual friends or family's blogs, but as time goes by you pick up on other ones that you find interesting, and I have made at least one friend purely through reading her blog.
4. I have had my current blog for just over a year, but have been blogging for about 6 years.
5.I'm 24, Swedish, although I have lived in Scotland for 5 years. I am a full time student.
1. I blog to get the things from my head to the world.
2. I do not spend enough time blogging. I should blog daily, but I don't. Maybe an hour a week.
3. Blogging is an outlet, and a place to be entertained or informed, a place to communicate.
4. Been blogging almost 5 years.
5. I am a 43 year old, white, female, financial adviser.
My Blog: www.universalmnd.blogspot.com
Bite me!
Hi, glad you like my blog.
1. Why do you do blog? I was stuck in a very unhappy marriage and it was the only place where I could vent. I left the marriage 20 months ago and haven't felt the need to blog. Now I only use it to post pictures of my stiching and garden and the odd bit of (amateur) photography.
2. How much time do you spend blogging per week, and how much time do you spend reading other blogs per week?
TBH hardly ever now. I tend to use facebook instead.
3. In your experience, what potential or actual benefits do you think blogging provides?
For me it was a vehicle to vent my frustration and reach out for someone who may understand.
4. How long have you been blogging?
I'm not sure, about 5 years maybe.
5. What is your background (roughly, in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, and occupation)?
40 year old white female. single mum of 3 girls. Currently unemployed, trainee accounting technician.
www.obsesseddragon.blogspot.com
Thanks for taking an interest in my blog. I would be honoured to complete your survey. Here goes...
1. Why do you do blog?
There are many reasons I blog but mainly because I enjoy writing and creating and a blog is great, inexpensive way to do so. Blogs are versatile in that you can post anything, any time of day, as many times you want and someone is most likely reading it.
Other reasons I blog is to communicate with others, I like talking to, and getting to know people in my community and around the world that share the same interestsas me. I have met some lovely and amazing people through my blog.
Another reason I blog is education. To be educated and to educate. I learn so much through bloggerabout specific topics and even about geography and different cultures around the world. Also I create posts in hopes to inform or offer my two sense, most times on cosmetics or things that are beauty related but also on many other topics like travel, food and day to day musings.
2. How much time do you spend blogging per week, and how much time do you spend reading other blogs per week?
I say I spend alot of time reading blogs orcreating posts, roughly 14-21 hours per week.
3. In your experience, what potential or actual benefits do you think blogging provides?
Education, awareness and communication. You also meet some lovely and amazing people, and the odd crazy person.
4. How long have you been blogging?
I've been blogging for a couple of years on and off. Lately its been on though.
5. What is your background (roughly, in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, and occupation)?
I am 24 years old, Causasion, female and have worked in the environmental sector (government) and currently am an entrepreneur and business owner in the cosmetics field.
Thanks for letting me take your survey!
In case anyone is interested in checking out my blog, here's the link, www.nikiinwonderland.blogspot.com
1. Why do you do blog? (feel free to be as expressive as you like)
It is my job to blog. I run several major left-wing and right-wing political blogs under a variety of anonymous names to shape public opinion and sow chaos and confusion.
2. How much time do you spend blogging per week, and how much time do you spend reading other blogs per week?
I blog around 8 hours a day, and read other blogs around 4 hours a day, stirring up dissent among various groups along the political spectrum in order to increase the chances of inspiring armed revolution and civil war.
3. In your experience, what potential or actual benefits do you think blogging provides?
As more and more people turn to the blogosphere to gain information, it becomes easier to fill them with disinformation. One of my greatest achievements was to get the readers of my left-wing blogs to attack the blogs of the readers of my right-wing blogs and vice versa.
4. How long have you been blogging?
This is classified information.
5. What is your background (roughly, in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, and occupation)?
I'm a 39 year old white male. I am a trained psychological warfare specialist for a NATO member's intelligence services.
This is interesting, I look forward to seeing the results.
I blog at Eidetic Illuminations. I also cowrite at The Prism.
1) I started blogging as a way to keep in contact with friends as I moved from place to place for school. I wanted to post my thoughts on various ideas and issues, and hoped to spark some discussion. I've since separated the two functions of my blog - keeping in touch with friends and providing a forum for discussion.
2) It depends on the week. I usually spend a lot of time reading other people's blogs (maybe 10 hours per week) but very little time actually blogging myself. Lately I'm trying to get a post a week, and I spend about an hour, more or less, on each post.
3) The main benefits I've gained from blogging is the chance to communicate with new people - though most of the time I meet people elsewhere and only later do they visit my blog - and thought provoking discussion. Having people comment, ask questions, critique my thoughts, this makes my thinking more fluid and stronger, I feel.
4) I started EI in the Fall of 2006 - so 4 years. Though I've not been very prolific.
5) I'm a 29 year old Caucasian male. I'm a Master's student in environmental anthropology.
I should add on Number 3 that I aspire to write articles and books - as you read in my latest post - for a "popular" audience (realizing the complexities of the term). I think blogging gives me a chance to practice writing in an informal, but public setting where my thoughts (and writing!) can be critiqued. It's a good third notebook. :)
http://australianinathens.blogspot.com/2010/03/whats-in-name.html
This one's for you.
My blog: Poetic Incidents
My answers:
1. I write because it's a great tool to solidify your thoughts and it's also a fine outlet for my creativity. (I also make music and paint.) And I write in a blog because this gives me the illusion that I write for others, and one day someone could actually read it, and so I have to put more effort into finding the perfect way to express myself. Also I have the illusion that my blog might be building up over a long time and have lots of quality contents one day, actually be a piece of art that could be interesting for the audience whom I'd also wish to present my music and my painting. (And maybe videos, too.)
2. As I'm new to this, I spend less time in writing, and more in blogzapping than will be my long-term average, but let's say I write 2 hours a week, and read 6, and this will be the other way round later.
3. The potential and actual benefit of writing (apart from publishing it) is that it's a highly sane activity in the field of psychohygiena, since you get your thoughts clearer, and find out what is important to you, and how to handle it. About the potential of blogging and getting feedback from readers I don't know much about yet, possibly if they understand what you say there could be some stimulation to write more, to write about topics they're interested in and that you find could be of interest to you, too, or maybe views they have that evaded you so far.
4. Just one month.
5. 45, male, Austrian, white, artist, computer programmer, farmer, in varying combinations.
Okay, here it goes ... And thank you for the comment on mine, by the way, it means a lot.
1. I blog because... It provides somewhere for me to go, somewhere where I can write freely and people won't judge me. The internet is one big, blank canvas, waiting to be scrawled upon by the naive writer. So that's what I do. I scrawl on the internet in the hopes someone will appreciate it as much as I enjoy writing it.
2.I don't spend a lot of time blogging. Most of the things I write would be too confusing to post to strangers. I read quite a few, and I spend about... ooh, I would say about 9 hours a week reading blogs. I have lot of free time, getting up at 4:30 and all.
3. I think, for me, blogging provides a place to retreat to when the world turns its back on me. For me, its for those days when I feel like everyone is out to get me and nothing is going right. At the moment, my blog is providing a kind of self-therapy. I have more detail about that in my blog (link is at the bottom of this comment).
4. I've been blogging since October 2008. I went off of it for a while, from about November 2008 to January 2009. I don't blog everyday, either, I do it as and when I have time or when I feel like it.
5. My background? Okay, Don't be shocked: Gender: Female. Age: 14, as of yesterday. Ethnicity: Half Italian, half English. Religion: I was Catholic up until the age of 12' then I realised that God was doing nothing for me. I'm now a relaxed Buddhist. Not a veggie, not someone who gives up everything, I meditate and follow the noble eightfold path and the four noble truths. Occupation: Part time language instructor, part time dance teacher, part time performer (singing, dancing, acting), and full time scholar.
That's me :) My blog:
http://deannas-world1.blogsot.com
xoxo
I am a 21-year-old female Caucasian. I'm a student at the University of Utah studying anthropology, and working at the public library.
1) I started blogging as a work project, it was more of a contest actually, and then i just kind of kept it up. also, it's nice to have friends and family also blog, i found out many things about them from their blogs that i otherwise probably wouldn't know.
2)and my blogging varies, probably 1-3hours a week, and i check other blogs constantly, several times a day, so maybe 4 hoursish, but i usually don't branch off, i usually just stick to favs.
3)I find blogging a great way to find new resources, i'm a huge shopper (or one day i will be) and i love finding out new places with great deals, i found out about etsy through blogging; it's just amazing what's out there.
lynzeesaurus.blogspot.com
1. Blogging allows me to release all my creative energies which working for clients usually doesn't. Blogging also helps me de-stress and is the best way to express my views to people who aren't biased as most of the people who read my blog aren't people I know.
2. I blog on and off...not regular once in a month or so...
3. Blogging is a gr8 platform to show off your writing skills, share your views...for me...it enables me to live a different life altogether, be someone else..where i can scream out my feelings without bothering what others think about it...
4. 2 years
5. Age -25 yrs
Gender -Female
Ethnicity -Indian
Occupation -Advertising Copywriter
1. I blog because... at first i was influenced by my friends around me and advise by my lecturer saying that blog is a good habit.
Now, i know blogging is a way that keeps my friends to keep in touch with me and is another wat to express feelings.
2. I spend about two hours to blog a week.
3.Blogging makesme feel... I just want my friends to know what's happening around me. I am a type of person who cannot keep unhappy things inside my heart, so by putting up my feeling here, i mean blogging, my friends will reply to me and concern about me. In short, i really need attention.
4. About two years...
5. I am 21 yeard old, female. I am now working a Flilght Attendant and i am 100% Chinese from Malaysia=)
thanks for dropping by my blogspot.
Hi Thank you for stopping by my blog and your kind words!
1: My main reason for blogging was to have an outlet for my frustrations and stress. I have serious "out-law" issues that I just cannot let out to just anyone and this is feels like a safe outlet for those frustrations. I am also a frustrated writer and this gives me a little chance to get my thought down for future reference.
2: Bloging time varies based on my workload--I have certain blogs that are my "morning coffee" if you will--I stop by daily. I would guess that its about 5-6 hours a week on average. I actually have been reading blogs for years and never commented or anything--thus how I got my blog name "Lurker Girl".
3: Blogging lets me get out my frustrations without pissing off my husband about his family. It's cheap therapy!!
4: I have been blogging for 3 years
5: My background: 41 year old White female, married for almost 21years, 1 child and I am a Project Manager for a TradeShow company
www.lurkergirlsguide.blogspot.com
Thanks for stopping by to read up on my random thoughts of what is going on in my life.
1. The main reason for the blog. Hmmm, it started as a way to marry my love for my art\photography\thoughts all in to one place. I find that my ramblings are similar as others, but different, but still unique. Some find them interesting (so they tell me).Others like the images I create and my perspective on what I was thinking at the time. I write what I feel, not what I think others want to hear.
2. I try to blog daily but sometimes work gets in the way. (currently unemployed so that's no excuse now...hahaha not that funny really)I blog for about 10-15 min. I add an original picture and write about it. Currently on a 365 day project where I take a photo of myself ,by myself for an entire year. That started on Flickr.
3. I would like to think that others can read my blog and get something out of it. If nothing else for the mere fact that we are all human and pretty much the same, we have similar issues and emotions. I am an open book and sometimes it's my therapy. (my personal reasons)
4. I have been blogging since April of 2006
5.I am a 45 year old white male, divorced, (but in a wonderful relationship now), was an Engineer with Johnson and Johnson for 20 years, but was affected by a mass lay off in Oct and still currently unemployed. I am the owner of John Binkley Photography and choose to shoot for the sake of art, but do weddings and portraits. I am also an artist who loves to paint and I also play guitar.
~I'm all over the place man. :^)>
I hope this bit of info helps with your study. That's what my blog is all about, my life, your life and our life.
http://helpsomeonetoday.blogspot.com/
1. Why do you blog? In short, because I can! I’ve been writing since I could hold a pencil and blogging is a fabulous way to feed that need while advancing my digital world experience. I was inspired by a friend and colleague who started a blog well before I did. As it became more of a relevant topic at work, I decided I would venture out on a personal level and serve as a guinea pig to get the lay of the land in the blogosphere. At first, I thought it might be a fun way to chronicle the many DIY projects I had taken on at my house. The more I’ve taken on, the more I’ve learned I can do. I think my blog has – or at least I hope it has – shown others that they can do many home projects themselves, too! More recently, I’ve looked to the blog as a creative outlet as some things I write for work can be dry and confining. By continuously fueling that creative spark, I think that blogging has helped me secure a new assignment at work that will provide me with a wide array of new writing opportunities.
2. How much time do you spend blogging per week and how much time do you spend reading other blogs? It depends. I try to post twice daily throughout the week and at least once a day during weekends though I sometimes skimp on weekends. With a background in newspapers, I also try to illustrate as many of my posts as I can. Many of my posts are real-time, impromptu commentaries while others are thought out and carefully constructed over a number of days. On average, I’d say I spend 8-10 hours a week blogging and responding to comments on my blog (though again this can vary from week to week) and I probably spend at least that much time again reading and commenting on other people’s blogs.
3. What potential or actual benefits do you think blogging provides? I think these are many, but here are a few of the largest:
a. Communication. Not only has blogging given me a new way to communicate with several people in the “real” world, it has connected me with new people from all over the world.
b. Information Exchange. Exchanging information – both personal and practical – is fabulous. When I buy things – or when companies send stuff my way – I try to provide honest and thorough reviews of them. It’s been exciting to have others chime in and offer their two cents on my reviews. I put a lot of store in what other people have to say when I am researching a product. It’s also given me several people I can ask those goofy DIY questions of and likely get just the answer I need. On a personal level, I love being welcomed into someone else’s life via my laptop. It’s incredible how much support you can receive from and give to people you don’t know outside cyberspace.
c. Creativity. Being able to write what I want, when I want has kept my love affair with the written word alive at times when my professional life has threatened to squelch it. It has continually buoyed my confidence in my ability to write. Without it, I wonder if my work would have suffered and I would have missed my chance to be singled out for a great opportunity.
d. Contests/Income. While all of the other benefits I’ve cited are intangible, there’s nothing “virtual” about gift cards and power tools! During the past two years, I’ve managed to collect a few DIY store cards and a small cache of tools and products, some through contests I’ve entered, others through companies that have actively sought me out by virtue of the content on my site.
4. How long have you been blogging? I started the blog nearly three years ago, posting only a few times, didn’t tell anyone and then didn’t touch it again for almost a year! Two years ago, I picked it back up, told everyone I could think of, began posting on all kinds of blogs (mostly DIY-related) and began building an audience. I’m humbled and amazed these days by the variety of people who show up – and by how many keep coming back.
5. What is your background? I am a mid-40s female with ancestry mixing a hodgepodge of Euro and Native American roots. I’m a former journalist, now working in PR.
http://thisdmnhouse.blogspot.com
1. I like to blog as a type of journal because I'm so bad at keeping a regular journal and I really want to remember so many of my favorite moments and stories. It's also a way for my family and friends to keep in touch. Last, I like blogging because it gives me a chance to throw out my thoughts and feelings into the void, just to be heard, even the 5 people that maybe see my blog.
2. I would say I spend about 1- 1 1/2 hrs a week looking at blogs and posting on my own.
3. In your experience, what potential or actual benefits do you think blogging provides? I like keeping in touch with others and it is a journal.
4. How long have you been blogging? I've been blogging for about 4 years.
5. What is your background (roughly, in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, and occupation)?
I'm in my mid-twenties, I'm female, white (I like to think i'm a mutt of cultures, and a nurse)
Good luck on your project and thanks for stopping by the blog!
1. I write for me. Sometimes thoughts overspill, fill your head, and you can do nothing with them but write them down. Writing and reading is how we share ideas and our cultures. I also think that one day, blogs will be taught in history classes as a primary source.
2. There is no set schedule. When I first started, I wrote every day. But then life gets in the way, and now its only when a thought strikes me. Which is better, quantity or quality?
3. When you blog, for all people, I think it is a type of self worship. You think what you say will be meaningful to others, and they will want to know what you read. You become important, whether in reality, or just in your own mind. It is therapeutic, and necessary to find yourself in the billions of people on the world. Set yourself apart and not be just a part of the census.
4. I've been writing since I was five, and wrote out things I would pass to my parents and friends and make them read. Like a public journal almost. But just blogging for about seven years.
5. Age - 25, Female, Caucasian - Indian/Irish/English, Born and raised in Tennessee, Occupation - Student/Engineer/Writer/?
mygramofsomaagain.blogspot.com
1. I blog to remind myself of me .. so that when i am in my 30's or 40's i'd be able to look back at my life as a teenager turning into an adult. and also to remind the people around me how much i appericiate them that i would love to keep them in my virtual memory since i cant store as much info in my head
2. at least a post a week.. i've not been updating blogspot cause i am insperationless.. XD
3. it could help someone to remind them of their memories without digging other people thoughts!
4. 3years! =D
5. An 18 year old, Malaysian girl studying PR.
please feel free to visit my blog
http://midnightdahlia.blogspot.com/
M E M O R I E S
This is an interesting line of questioning..
1.I blog so I don't kill my family.
I blog so normal people won't see me as a nut (let your freak flag fly so to speak)
I blog because embarrassing and shaming my children is what I do :)
2. I don't keep track of the time I spend all though i think I could devote more if I wasn't so A.D.D.
like the affliction not the math
I have lost most of my base since all of my favorites stopped blogging and I went on hiatus for awhile so my reading list is definetly shorter now.
3. I think blogging in itself is probably useless yet we come back over and over to tell the world about our adventures. I think in reality blogging is our way of getting attention so we can feel like we make some kind of difference in the world.
I dunno really?
4. I have been blogging for about 4 years and mostly its crap
5. I am an unemployed book keeper/ accountant/ phlebotomist selling all her late husbands comic book stuff so I can finish my histology degree.. i like gross stuff
I am.. "sniff" 35
I am whiter than the inside of a mayonaise jar
and I am a little bent :0
good talk
http://www.randombullarcky.blogspot.com
1- i do blog coz, it helps me to express some random thoughts which it will be weird to say in a normal conversation.
2- it depends, but nt more than 2 hours a week.
3-
4- i used to blog 3 years ago, and i restarted another blog with my friends
5- Age 21, Gender Male, ethnicity Caucasian from Egypt, occupation student abroad in Malaysia.
my URL :
http://betello.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-wonderful-world.html
1. I use blogging to express those thoughts that were going through my mind at a certain point in time. My mind tended to wonder alot and when an interesting topic came up, I would want to blog it down, adding in my personal views along with it.
2. I blog as and when I've got a topic to write about, no fixed schedule.
3. I find that blogging allows me to put to use some of the phrases that I've came across while reading. At the same time, blogging allows me to express my thoughts, my feelings an emotions in a space where I'm answerable to virtually nobody. Freedom of speech, I guess.
4. Been blogging for the past 2 over years.
5. I'm 30 this year, male, Singaporean Chinese. I'm an IT Specialist dealing with IT Security.
1. Why do you do blog? (feel free to be as expressive as you like)
Started off as just an online journal of sorts, started the summer before I started university and just wanted to document that period of big change in my life
2. How much time do you spend blogging per week, and how much time do you spend reading other blogs per week?
I check my google reader every day, but I don't post every day, probably just under an hour (hey I'm a student, I've got some time to kill haha)
3. In your experience, what potential or actual benefits do you think blogging provides?
I find quite alot of anthropological/sociological interest in it too. I think some bloggers are very influencial, some become a sort of online community hot spot, kind of like an online coffee shop if that makes sense?
4. How long have you been blogging?
About 2 years
5. What is your background (roughly, in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, and occupation)?
Female, 20, white, Student of social anthropology
I'll post this link on my page, I dont really have many readers but hopefully some will stop by! Survey karma and all that lol
Visit my blog at http://emilylouise31.blogspot.com/
I'm very happy that you liked my blog. I like to turn my tragedy into sardonic humor, as best I can. It's nice when it's appreciated.
Here are the answers to your questions, I hope it helps.
1. I blog because I care. I care about my friends so the things I say in my blog are off limits to my closest of friends. Only 4 people in the whole world know the true identity of my pseudonym and I prefer to keep it that way. This way, none of my friends can come along read something that they think might pertain to them and then unleash all out war on me for my feelings. Anonymity is key.
2. My blogging isn't very timeable, I blog when the mood strikes. The best estimate would be at least one per week. The most accurate would be one per mood. I have a few blogs that I follow but reading time is limited to when I have a few extra minutes that aren't self involved.
3. Blowing off steam. There are certain social conventions that cannot be ignored, such as not being bitchy every time someone does something you don't agree with. But, sometimes it simply must be said.
4. not very long. when myspace was the place to be, i wrote "notes" there that could be considered blogs, but there weren't any open opinions there like there are here. and then I wrote notes on Facebook until I realized I couldn't say there all that I wanted to say either. So I created an alter ego (so to speak) and an anonymous blog about a month ago. I'm very happy with it so far.
5. I'm a 23 year old female, rarely referred to as a lady. Secretary to a very important person in the company I work for. very social, very red headed, and Caucasian from Italian descent.
if you or anyone else you know would like to know what I rave about visit me at:
http://chroniclesofthedeastroyer.blogspot.com/
Thank you for your comment on my article. Here are some answers to your questions:
1. I blog to share ideas on education and get feedback from my peers.
2. I blog about 1x per week.
3. I think it helps me to organize my practice and get feedback. It is difficult to get my peers or the principal to come and observe in my classroom.
4. I have been blogging for about 3 years.
5. I am a 37 year old middle school teacher.I am a guy. I come from an ethnically diverse family, and as a result I have a great looking tan that lasts year 'round.
Thanks for your comment and glad you enjoy my blog; just out of curiosity, how did you find mine? I'll do my best to answer your questions, sorry if they're a tad brief for sleep is approaching...
1. I blog primarily to keep all the loved ones in my life updated on my goings-on, its actually kind of a cop out and saves some of the guilt of not talking to everyone one on one more often. I also found reading blogs of other peace corps volunteers prior to going into peace corps myself very helpful and hope that i might be a similar resource to future volunteers. I blog also for self-expression-a more edited version of my private journaling, and yet still freely spoken as if to anyone, rather than someone in particular. in this way, any one part of my writing might strike a cord in someone i may have never said it to.
2. it varies widely! i spent probably a couple hours a week blogging and five or so reading others blogs when living in morocco, but since i moved back to the states i haven't had enough time to journal myself, even less for writing new blogs or reading others, I'm averaging one blog post a month now, but i hope to pick it back up soon
3. a crazy amount of networking possibilities and ability to have a look into the daily going's on of practically any lifestyle.
4.since December 2006
5. I'm 24, female, Caucasian mutt and a farmer
http://briboon.blogspot.com/
I appreciate the attentiveness to my blog. Thank you.
1. I blog because it is cathartic and it allows me to release my tensions, emotions, and pains through on of my favorite and most cherished mediums-writing. I love that my writing is personal and can be relatable in the same notion. I was known as the kid with the ipod and notebook writing all of the time and blocking out the world with my blasting music. I still keep a journal and now the blogosphere has given me some sort of anonymity and familiarity at the same time. When my spoken words can't fully express my emotions, my words suffice.
2. Well I don't blog as much as I used to, I used to blog everyday. For the most part, I write at the moment I feel the urge and most of the time I wasn't at the computer. It's hard to do that anyway, I didn't own my own computer until fairly recently. I read blogs of friends of mine almost daily but I don't search them often. I love when strangers stumble upon mine though, I absolutely love it. I never know that someone has stumbled upon them if they don't leave comments but it's all still lovable the same. So in the moments I can, I blog and it may take hours to get it out or minutes.. Depends.
3. It has benefitted me in a plethora of ways. I have strong friendships through blogging and have understood a bit more closely. It's a release that we all share in different ways, but somehow we are all interconnected through it.
4. I've been blogging since May 2008
5. What is your background (roughly, in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, and occupation)?
I am 19 and will be 20 at the end of March :) I am a woman of Haitian origin, born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Proud to be me. I am a student, second year college, and most importantly I suppose, an artist.
My original blog is www.roofdweller.blogspot.com
The newest and no longer secret :), blog I've been attending to is www.gypsieloveletters.blogspot.com
I hope you enjoy, and stop by some time.
Yeah,.........Thanks For the post.....Good work...keep it up.....I blog also for self-expression....I felt somewhat isolated....it's just a fun, great creativeness
Really........such a nice information you have posted.....i have read your blog and i saw that i have learn t so many things from your article....it is very interesting.
Hello thanks as well for the positive feedback on my blog.
here are some answers for your questions
1 i am an art student . i blog because it is like sketching for me. blogging for me is a spontaneous act. i blog when the feeling comes. i think besides communicating with the world it is also helpful for any art project or work i would like to do. if the blog entry seems helpful or if it connects with people in the long run, i might use the materials for the art project.
so in a way, i find blogging helpful, because it
allows me to express thoughts i normally might
not in daily life .
2 i don.t blog very regularly. maybe twice or three times a month. but if the feeling is very compelling,
maybe more. it really depends on the mood, the
flow of things in my life and mind. it is a spontaneous activity. i don't plan it, like say " oh today is blogging day, or it is blogging time..."
3 first of all as i mentioned before the benefit is also related to my art work. second, i am also a fan of HOPE...like bringing hope to my self, and also to
others. i was enouraged by other people in the past, by their writings and art, and they have changed my life. so now that my life is improved under the influences of these people, but of course together with other positive factors, i would also like to bring it back, to influence and encourage others with my words or experiences. it is like a cycle. people give it to me, and i give it to people.
the bible also says " words satisfy the soul, like the way food satisfies the stomach. "
4 i started blogging in the year 2003. a friend introduced me to it. it was as if i stumbled upon a new world.
5 i am an art student in germany. i am chinese , but grew up in singapore. i was a literature student in the USA and lived there for about 7 years.
i luv travelling that 's why i move quite a bit:)
Thanks for including me in your study :)
1. Why do you do blog? (feel free to be as expressive as you like)
~ I am not sure anymore why it is that I blog. I have blogged for the reason of communication, knowledge, venting, connecting, entertainment. Pretty much every reason to blog. And now, it’s kind of like I have built this piece of myself, much like building a mosaic. Full of different colors and meanings, all converged in the swirl of belonging... and I can’t bring myself to knock it down. Ruin the magic.
2. How much time do you spend blogging per week, and how much time do you spend reading other blogs per week?
~ Not much actually. An hour, maybe two tops. I used to spend hours upon hours blogging and reading/commenting on blogs. But my time has found restriction now, so something’s gotta give. However, I still spend too much time on facebook. I don’t even do anything on it but read peoples status’s and such . I have no idea why I am addicted to facebook actually; there is not enough anonymity to it.
3. In your experience, what potential or actual benefits do you think blogging provides?
~ I think it can give a person a sense of community, acceptance outlet for creativity and a forum for understanding. In the same token though, it is easy to become lost in this fabricated world, with real feelings and emotions tying into text. Personally, I have discovered a lot about myself, my goals, and what’s really important through blogging. And sometimes to learn those things, blogging was the cause/effect of a bad realisation. But I think that’s how everything really works out in the end... everything has positive and negative aspects.
4. How long have you been blogging?
~ Technically, seven years. I think sites like ICQ kinda made blogging a natural progression. I belonged to the ICQ community for 3 years prior to blogging, and I have had my hotmail account for 15 years. I have always liked the idea of pen-pals (used to have one in grade school) and e-mail felt like that... only more sophisticated. Blogging was just a matter of time really, I was already a journal-a-holic, and was dying for acceptance in my real life. Validation was like a drug to me, and still somewhat is. I am still a comment whore.
5. What is your background (roughly, in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, and occupation)?
~ Early thirties? When do you go from early to mid? 34? 35? I might be mid-thirties; I will be 34 this year. I am female, Caucasian and work for a major corporation that deals in commodities trading, refining and production. Pretty obscure huhÉ That`s because I don`t talk about my work as such. Tends to get people fired, and I love working. I work hard, I am really good at everything I do, and I impress people on a daily basis. And if you can tell, I am proud of that.
What you haven`t asked: I am a mother of two girls. They are 1 and 6. I am married, very happily, and have been married for 11 years this year, together for 13. I am pretty secure financially and own a lot of things, which my husband I have worked very hard to secure. We`ve never been gifted these things, or had them passed down.
I am probably defined as lawful-good. I do my taxes on time, don`t break the law and am pretty complacent. Usually. But I have a chaotic side, and that is what my blog gets used for most of the time.
Not sure if this helps or hinders, but for what it`s worth, this is a really interesting idea you have, and I`d like to know the findings whenever you do have it.
Pam left this as a comment on my blog, so I thought I'd share it here. You can visit Pam at: http://findingpam.blogspot.com/
But Mr. Lance can cook! I liked his answer. He just does not want us to know much about him
OK, here are my answers.
1. Why do I blog? I started out as more of a journal about my childhood, hence the name finding pam. Very soon it bacame more to me because of the friendships I have made. It is a safe place for me to tell the whole world my problems. I also do not feel judged in blog land.
2. How much time do I spend blogging per week and how much time do I spend reading other blogs per week?
It all depends on how much time I have and how I am feeling. Usually not more than three hours per week and that includes reading other blogs. Some days I don't blog.
3. In your experience, what potential or actual benefits do you think blogging provides?
For me it is about finding my voice, writing,friendships, communication and learning new things. I have learned so much about myself and others.
4. How long have you been blogging? I am fairly new to blogging. I started my blog in August,2008.
5.What is your back ground? I am a 59 year old caucasion woman. I have been married for 38 years and we have two grown sons. My family is my life.
My major was Interior Design, but I am a floral designer. I owned my own shop, but retired. Now I work part time at a cute little shop.
I am christian and believe in God. I am a giver not a taker. I never meet a stranger and I can always find something good in everybody.
I have RA and I still don't accept it, therefore I try alternative options like acupuncture, yoga, and bio-feed back.
Maybe I should have said what Mr. Lance said!LOL
1. Blogging for me started as an accident. I hit a button on Picasa which I had just downloaded. I do a little bit of drawing, so once I had searched around the blogs, I thought I could get some constructive criticism on my drawing. It quickly transformed into a hobby simple because I started to meet other very interesting bloggers that became friends.
2. Most of my blogging now is reading and commenting on friends blogs, I don't have too much time anymore for my own posts. I'd say about 4 hours per week.
3. That really depends on what you are blogging for. For me blogging provided an arena to show my art, and quickly became a more than a fun hobby. I was constantly interacting with people I have never met, and also challenged by them to create.
4. I've been blogging for about four years.
5. I'm a 50 year old Canadian male in the Hospitality industry.
Thanks for popping in!
TTFN
Hello and thank you for visiting. I appreciate your kind comments. Since anthropology is an interest of mine, I would be glad to assist you in any way possible.
1. Why do I blog? That is a good question. For the most part I blog because I have to get my emotions out somehow and I have always found the most effective way to be through writing. I could, of course, journal, but the possibility of someone actually reading my thoughts is, for some reason, appealing. Moreover, as strange as it sounds, I feel I have more privacy or anonymity on the internet than if I were to write in a physical journal. Plus, there are some things you just can't tell those people closest to you; things reserved for therapists or blogs.
2. As far as frequency, I usually only blog when something special, unique, or abnormal comes to mind. This is probably reflected in what I write. I average about two posts per month, though I am trying to write more. Each post takes about one hour to write, edit, and evaluate. There is a fine line between expression and baring all.
When it comes to reading blogs, I usually don't unless one catches my eye or I have a vested interest. For example, I subscribe to my mother's blog, in case I come up somewhere. I find it interestingly difficult to find a blogger who can both inform and entertain me. I know that sounds terribly pretentious but life is short.
3. The benefits to blogging, as far as I can see, are limited to an increase in writing ability (in some cases) and a therapeutic expression of emotions and frustrations. My blog isn't what you would call information based, and is rather a personal account of my trials, tribulations, and celebrations. I'm not under any false belief that I will be taken seriously as some sort of celebrity blogger. I blog for myself, and if someone happens to read it, I'm glad I can contribute to literacy in the world.
4. I have been blogging since August of 2008.
5. Background, right. Hmmm, where to start. I am a caucasian female who currently resides in Ontario, Canada (I was also born here). One grandfather is off-the-boat English, the other is off-the-boat Hungarian. I am a student attending an exploratory program at college in order to figure out what I want to do in life. I just turned 19 in December and have mixed emotions about being so "old" (I don't feel I have accomplished enough in my nineteen years). I live in a single parent family with my mother raising my brother and I. As far as the class system goes, we are upper-middle class.
I hope I helped you in whatever you are endeavouring to discover. Please let me know if I can help you further.
Kindly,
Chelsea
Second try.
1. My blog is meant to provide new information about a subject that is presently very contorted in its reception, namely schizophrenia. Most doctors believe this disease is incurable, that the only thing you can do is take livelong medication in order to cope with the symptoms, and the general view of the public about it simply is indiscussable and requires severe revision. My case is not only a prove that schizophrenia can be cured, can be cured without medicaments, and can be cured by the prolonged effort of the individual alone, without the aid of therapists or psychiatrists, it also is a prove that schizophrenia is not even a sickness, but the unfortunate reaction of people with a certain genetic disposition to a society that can not be called healthy at all. It also aims to give some guideline to a higher mental development. (For other schizophrenics as well as for "normal" people.)
2. During the time of this project I'll spend about 2 hours per day for writing, and perhaps half an hour for reading others, included their comments.
3. I can not say from experience yet what actual benefits this project provides, as it is in a very early stage now, but my expectations rank from helping other people with a similar disease (myself, I was affected for about 20 years), from informing the general public about certain aspects of the working of the brain and how to use it in a higher way, from raising the consciousness that prevention is one thing that is direly needed here, to possibly finding a publisher who will make a book of it. The idea is to tell the story of my experiences and visions, to give explanations of the neural background, to try some other lines like self-help and "spiritual" development, and let the readers influence by their comments some aspects of the text. The story is vast, and it contains elements that are highly exciting adventure storytelling like fantasy literature, it contains criticism about a guru sect that is still active and has influenced my life to the worse, it contains criticism about society in general, contains positive ideas about how to use a brain in a better way, and probably many things more. I think it is a highly exciting plan to let the audience decide where the emphases of the text should be, as in the end it is the audience for whom I write this, my personal clearance is just a side-effect, as I'm mostly done with understanding what has happened to me, but the general public is highly ignorant about almost everything having to do with this.
4. For about three days.
5. Male, 45, Austrian, unemployed, a loser. (Until now.)
My blog:
http://atmybrain.blogspot.com/
At my brain...
Where are you? I'm at my brain... Where??? I'm at home, baby, at my brain.
Good questions, why are you askng such questions??? what is your profit??????
hi, thanks for stopping by my blog. here's my bit:
1: to keep in touch to some extent. and also as a reminder to myself, of where I've been, a bit of a journal you might say.
2: between 3-5 hours I guess, given the spare time. actual blog reading's pretty slim, feed-readers rock :D
3: helps me watch myself evolve...
4: 5 years
5: engineer, work on a boat half the year, travel a fair bit
-kray @ lightswillguideyouhome.blogspot.com
Hi all. First, I never use the next blog button as a matter of staying focused on the tasks at hand. But today the imp of the perverse caught me unawares and the very next blog after mine referred to this blog and this survey. Is that 2degrees of seperation?
1. I began blogging because I'd been reading Wil Wheaton's blog for years. It is entertaining, calming, informative and it often makes my life better by getting me out of my own head. As I have always been one of the goto people in my circle of friends it occurred to me that I could pass along some help. I maintain 3 regular blogs: Geekdom for musing on life as a geek, a geneaology blog just incase anyone else was looking for the same ancestors and to keep family aprised of my progress in tracking our history and my art blog which seems to be an unassuming and safe place to modestly brag.
2. Depending on mood, amount of material to pass along and creative levels I blog between 2-8 hours a weeks. I can however have dry spells of nearly 3 months.
I read Wheatons blog religiously and have a handful that I read 2-3 hours per week.
3. Blogging has been therapeutic, helped me be a more disciplined writer & expanded my social network only moderately. It is an extension of my twitter and facebook pages, a seperate place where I call the shots. And since one of the things that has plagued me my entire life is a profound belief that there is nothing significant to my existance, it helps me to see what others see in me.
4. In May I will celebrate my 2 year blogiversay.
5.female, divorced, single, working class, partial degree, spiritual mutt, German/English/Jewish American. Artist and writer by birth, laundress by trade.
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