Well, it's being cited everywhere, so I figured I should look at the Blog Survey Results and see how I fit in. (Besides, I'm waiting for a disk to almost fill.)
- 76% of bloggers do not limit access (i.e. readership) to their
entries in any way
I only routinely limit one person and he knows full well who he is - 36% of respondents have gotten in trouble because of things they
have written on their blogs
Yup. Been there, done that. - 34% of respondents know other bloggers who have gotten in trouble
with family and friends
Nope. I can think of some that have gotten in trouble with their employer, but not friends or family. - 12% of respondents know other bloggers who have gotten in legal or
professional problems because of things they wrote on their
blogs
Only 12%? Wow. I know of at least 2 if I don't count myself. - when blogging about people they know personally: 66% of
respondents almost never asked permission to do so; whereas, only 9%
said they never blogged about people they knew
personally.
Yup. I ask permission only for quotes from private (email or IM) conversations. - 83% of respondents characterized their entries as personal
ramblings whereas 20% said they mostly publish lists of
useful/interesting links (respondents could check multiple options for
this answer).
I do both. - the frequency with which a blogger writes highly personal things
is positively and significantly correlated to how often they get in
trouble because of their postings
Interesting. I write about "personal" things often but have never gotten in trouble for them. It's always other stuff that gets me. - there is no correlation between how often a blogger writes about
highly personal things and how concerned they are about the
persistence of their entries
I care about persistence. - checking one's access log files isn't correlated to how well a
blogger feels they know their
audience
Hilarious. - despite believing that they are liable for what they publish
online (58% of respondents believed they were highly liable), in
general, bloggers do not believe people could sue them for what they
have written on their blogs
Hmm. I've never really thought about it.
I guess the general lesson here is that I need to get better at pissing off people, especially friends and family.
How do you fare?
Posted by jzawodn at March 19, 2004 01:54 PM
Fuck you!
There, now you've pissed off a friend w/o even trying!
"34% of respondents know other bloggers who have gotten in trouble with family and friends"
*ducks*
Jeremy, just write more about MySQL, and I'm sure you'll piss off more people. Although they'll mostly be trolls. ;-)
The only reason Jeremy censors the MySQL iditot is because he/she/it never has anything useful to say. Its always just "fun and games". "MySQL sucks" "MySQL this, MySQL that".
I always find a comment here or there thats kind of like: "MySQL sucks".
You know what? Fuck off. If you have nothing better to say or nothing intelligent rather than just trolling on Jeremy's personal blog, don't say it at all.
Larry, you're in a desperate need of a life. Stay out of my weblog as well, please.
I pity the two posters above that talk about how bloggers have no lives.
It seems people that just sit on a blog and throw crap around are in need of more of a life.
I find it amusing that whenever I write something about the Mysql trolls here, they (or he depending on your point of view) always find their way to my site to leave a 100% irrelevant anti-Mysql comment. Somebody needs a real hobby.
