Comments on: Infoscapelab releases new study on Canadian bloggers and how partisan they are. http://scottdiatribe.gluemeat.com/2007/06/05/infoscapelab-releases-new-study-on-canadian-bloggers-and-how-partisan-they-are/ My personal opinions on social and political issues from a progressive standpoint. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:39:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Greg Elmer http://scottdiatribe.gluemeat.com/2007/06/05/infoscapelab-releases-new-study-on-canadian-bloggers-and-how-partisan-they-are/#comment-4826 Greg Elmer Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:43:04 +0000 http://scottdiatribe.gluemeat.com/2007/06/05/infoscapelab-releases-new-study-on-canadian-bloggers-and-how-partisan-they-are/#comment-4826 A quick response. This brief report is an extract from a larger research project that will be published later this year. This will also include an elaboration of the blog ranking method that Scott noted in his post. In terms of the traffic issue, we felt it was unrealistic to get questionnaires out to the entire liblog, blogging tories, dippers (etc.) rolls (we also wanted to study the entire emembership of partisan blog rolls -- meaning we needed a ranking method for the entire list and not just those who returned a questionnaire with traffic numbers). In addition, in our experience, better organized blog rolls -- and bloggers --  are more likely to repond to researcher inquiries (thus created a bias in our sample). Given the nature of our research and conclusions (on online politics) we have also faced some partisan scrutiny (from bloggers) in the past. We thus felt a more objective method was warranted.  We also could not independently verify traffic numbers offered by bloggers. As an aside, it is commonly knowledge that technoratic, Google, and other search engines rank the authority of blogs based on incoming links -- we felt our method was more exact as we further narrowed that common practice by explicitly focusing on "blogs that I read" links from bloggers. While not perfect our ranking of comments (as one indicator of influence and authority within partisan blog rolls) would seem to be a better indicator of engagment with writings of a blogger than simple blog visits (reads). But we could argue about that too! thanks Scott.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4826','Greg Elmer'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4826','Greg Elmer','A quick response. This brief report is an extract from a larger research project that will be published later this year. This will also include an elaboration of the blog ranking method that Scott noted in his post. In terms of the traffic issue, we felt it was unrealistic to get questionnaires out to the entire liblog, blogging tories, dippers (etc.) rolls (we also wanted to study the entire emembership of partisan blog rolls -- meaning we needed a ranking method for the entire list and not just those who returned a questionnaire with traffic numbers). In addition, in our experience, better organized blog rolls -- and bloggers --&nbsp; are more likely to repond to researcher inquiries (thus created a bias in our sample). Given the nature of our research and conclusions (on online politics) we have also faced some partisan scrutiny (from bloggers) in the past. We thus felt a more objective method was warranted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;We also could not independently verify traffic numbers offered by bloggers. As an aside, it is commonly knowledge that technoratic, Google, and other search engines rank the authority of blogs based on incoming links -- we felt our method was more exact as we further narrowed that common practice by explicitly focusing on &quot;blogs that I read&quot; links from bloggers. While not perfect our ranking of comments (as one indicator of influence and authority within partisan blog rolls) would seem to be a better indicator of engagment with writings of a blogger than simple blog visits (reads). But we could argue about that too! thanks Scott.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> A quick response. This brief report is an extract from a larger research project that will be published later this year. This will also include an elaboration of the blog ranking method that Scott noted in his post. In terms of the traffic issue, we felt it was unrealistic to get questionnaires out to the entire liblog, blogging tories, dippers (etc.) rolls (we also wanted to study the entire emembership of partisan blog rolls — meaning we needed a ranking method for the entire list and not just those who returned a questionnaire with traffic numbers). In addition, in our experience, better organized blog rolls — and bloggers –  are more likely to repond to researcher inquiries (thus created a bias in our sample). Given the nature of our research and conclusions (on online politics) we have also faced some partisan scrutiny (from bloggers) in the past. We thus felt a more objective method was warranted.

 We also could not independently verify traffic numbers offered by bloggers. As an aside, it is commonly knowledge that technoratic, Google, and other search engines rank the authority of blogs based on incoming links — we felt our method was more exact as we further narrowed that common practice by explicitly focusing on "blogs that I read" links from bloggers. While not perfect our ranking of comments (as one indicator of influence and authority within partisan blog rolls) would seem to be a better indicator of engagment with writings of a blogger than simple blog visits (reads). But we could argue about that too! thanks Scott.

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]]> By: Woman at Mile 0 http://scottdiatribe.gluemeat.com/2007/06/05/infoscapelab-releases-new-study-on-canadian-bloggers-and-how-partisan-they-are/#comment-4799 Woman at Mile 0 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:07:33 +0000 http://scottdiatribe.gluemeat.com/2007/06/05/infoscapelab-releases-new-study-on-canadian-bloggers-and-how-partisan-they-are/#comment-4799 It is kinda vague.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4799','Woman at Mile 0'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4799','Woman at Mile 0','It is kinda vague.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> It is kinda vague.
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]]> By: Scott Tribe http://scottdiatribe.gluemeat.com/2007/06/05/infoscapelab-releases-new-study-on-canadian-bloggers-and-how-partisan-they-are/#comment-4795 Scott Tribe Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:45:11 +0000 http://scottdiatribe.gluemeat.com/2007/06/05/infoscapelab-releases-new-study-on-canadian-bloggers-and-how-partisan-they-are/#comment-4795 <p>[quote comment="4793"]Interesting - but I was hoping for more. Oh well...[/quote]</p> <p>What else did you want to see TT? I talk to Greg a bit on Facebook... leave a request and I can pass it on to him (that goes for other comments/critiques/suggestions to others as well).</p> Perhaps in one of their next studies they can incorporate it. <div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4795','Scott Tribe'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4795','Scott Tribe','<p>&#91;quote comment=\"4793\"&#93;Interesting - but I was hoping for more. Oh well...&#91;\/quote&#93;<\/p>\r\n<p>What else did you want to see TT? I talk to Greg a bit on Facebook... leave a request and I can pass it on to him (that goes for other comments\/critiques\/suggestions to others as well).<\/p> Perhaps in one of their next studies they can incorporate it.\r\n\r\n'); return false;">Quote</a></div> [quote comment="4793"]Interesting - but I was hoping for more. Oh well…[/quote]

What else did you want to see TT? I talk to Greg a bit on Facebook… leave a request and I can pass it on to him (that goes for other comments/critiques/suggestions to others as well).

Perhaps in one of their next studies they can incorporate it.

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]]> By: Toronto Tory http://scottdiatribe.gluemeat.com/2007/06/05/infoscapelab-releases-new-study-on-canadian-bloggers-and-how-partisan-they-are/#comment-4793 Toronto Tory Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:30:51 +0000 http://scottdiatribe.gluemeat.com/2007/06/05/infoscapelab-releases-new-study-on-canadian-bloggers-and-how-partisan-they-are/#comment-4793 Interesting - but I was hoping for more.  Oh well...<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4793','Toronto Tory'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4793','Toronto Tory','Interesting - but I was hoping for more.&nbsp; Oh well...'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Interesting - but I was hoping for more.  Oh well…
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]]> By: knb http://scottdiatribe.gluemeat.com/2007/06/05/infoscapelab-releases-new-study-on-canadian-bloggers-and-how-partisan-they-are/#comment-4790 knb Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:03:49 +0000 http://scottdiatribe.gluemeat.com/2007/06/05/infoscapelab-releases-new-study-on-canadian-bloggers-and-how-partisan-they-are/#comment-4790 Yikes, did I make that black line?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4790','knb'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4790','knb','Yikes, did I make that black line?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Yikes, did I make that black line?
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]]> By: knb http://scottdiatribe.gluemeat.com/2007/06/05/infoscapelab-releases-new-study-on-canadian-bloggers-and-how-partisan-they-are/#comment-4789 knb Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:02:09 +0000 http://scottdiatribe.gluemeat.com/2007/06/05/infoscapelab-releases-new-study-on-canadian-bloggers-and-how-partisan-they-are/#comment-4789 I've yet to go through it, but the title doesn't surprise me.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4789','knb'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4789','knb','I\'ve yet to go through it, but the title doesn\'t surprise me.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I’ve yet to go through it, but the title doesn’t surprise me.
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