Blogging Survey Responses
My answers to the undersigned’s blogging survey:
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When did you start blogging?
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Average, how often do you blog?
2.03 times a week (797 posts since April 1999).
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How do you host your blog?
I host it myself, on rakim.
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What blogging application/service do you use?
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Do you use an application to blog directly from your desktop, rather than from your blogs administration?
Hmm. If I interpret the question as
do I use a client application which speaks some variety of blog posting protocol, or do I directly manipulate my blog content in some manner,
then the answer is the latter. Otherwise, my answer is Emacs. -
Do you use a free theme for your blog?
No, I have made one myself.
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What type of blogging do you do?
Personal, topical (coding, baseball, libertarianism, etc.).
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What is your primary blogging motivation?
Other: blogging as offloaded long-term memory.
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Do you care much about the amount of visitors?
No.
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Does the total account of visitors on your blog count more to you, than the amount of visitors who comment on your blog posts?
I don’t care either way.
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Do you use some sort of anti spam solution for your blog comments? (Such as Akismet)
Yes, Akismet.
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If you run advertisements on your blog, do you sell the ads yourself?
I don’t.
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If you earn money on advertising on your blog, how much do you approximately earn per month?
N/A
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If you are running a business blog, has it helped your business to start blogging?
N/A
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Are you a member of a blogging network such as random shapes or 9rules?
No.
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If you are member of a blogging network - has it helped you noticeable in any way?
N/A
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How many daily unique visitors do your blog have?
0–100.
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Do you keep statistics of feed subscribers?
No.
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Do you put work into search engine optimisation for your blog?
In the sense that I care about clean, semantic markup, nice URIs, etc., yes. Otherwise, no.
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Have you ever bought advertisement on other websites for your blog?
No.