The preliminary results from this project are now available. Additionally, the results from this project have been written up in Blogs as Virtual Communities: Identifying a Sense of Community for “Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture“. I will be writing up a final report to be published in peer reviewed journal in the next 6 months.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! to those people who took time to respond to the survey and answer questions. The information your provided me is amazingly rich and complex. I believe it is going to give researchers a great deal of insight into the growing blog world.
A special thanks to Julie Powell for letting me have access to survey her blog readers. If I hadn’t stumbled upon the Julie/Julia project and grown to love it myself, I would not have all this exciting data in front of me now. Thanks, Julie, for sharing your experiences with academia!