{"id":684,"date":"2007-11-11T22:44:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T21:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=684"},"modified":"2007-11-11T22:44:18","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T21:44:18","slug":"but-how-many-readers-i-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/11\/but-how-many-readers-i-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"But how many readers, I wonder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2007\/nov\/09\/blogging.socialnetworking\">Britain apparently now has 4 million bloggers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOf Britain&#8217;s web population of 26 million [a study] found that 15% kept a blog. Of those running a personal website, almost one in five were blogging at least once a day &#8211; the high water mark for an internet phenomenon that is transforming the way people voice their opinions.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But what&#8217;s the value of voicing one&#8217;s opinion if no one&#8217;s actually listening?  It would be particularly interesting to study how much of all that text is being read, and by who?  (In fairness, of course, there aren&#8217;t that many folks reading this, so <em>mea culpa<\/em>, etc., etc.)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to John Naughton for <a href=\"http:\/\/memex.naughtons.org\/archives\/2007\/11\/11\/4517\">the pointer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/blogging\/\" title=\"blogging\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/technology\/\" title=\"technology\">technology<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/12\/12\/science-debate-its-about-time\/\" title=\"Science Debate:  It&#8217;s about time! (12 Dec 07)\">Science Debate:  It&#8217;s about time!<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/07\/11\/your-ipod-broke-my-metaphor\/\" title=\"Your iPod broke my metaphor (11 Jul 05)\">Your iPod broke my metaphor<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain apparently now has 4 million bloggers: Of Britain&#8217;s web population of 26 million [a study] found that 15% kept a blog. Of those running a personal website, almost one in five were blogging at least once a day &#8211; the high water mark for an internet phenomenon that is transforming the way people voice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/11\/but-how-many-readers-i-wonder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;But how many readers, I wonder?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,6,7],"tags":[91,73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-b2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1078,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2009\/08\/22\/study-finds-on-line-education-beats-classroom-but-what-does-that-mean\/","url_meta":{"origin":684,"position":0},"title":"Study finds on-line education beats classroom, but what does that mean?","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"22 Aug 09","format":false,"excerpt":"A recent study for the Department of Education (NY Times piece; full 93-page PDF report) performed a meta-analysis of 99 students over the past 12 years, and found that students in on-line courses did slightly, but statistically significantly, better than those in traditional classrooms. It's an interesting study, and likely\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Education&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/education\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":781,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/25\/wrapping-ones-head-around-the-data\/","url_meta":{"origin":684,"position":1},"title":"Wrapping one&#8217;s head around the data","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"25 Jan 08","format":false,"excerpt":"JOCP! It's been almost five days since I've posted anything here, and I have so much backed up in the queue... There's a major conference deadline (GECCO 2008) in a few days, and I'm struggling to finish up four different (and only loosely related) papers for submission. 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