Useful Guardian article

Article from the Guardian today offers further evidence that Europeans don't use the Internet in the morning - the prefer to read the paper or listen to the radio until 10.00 am apparently.

Many thanks to all those of you who offered suggestions about the differences in when Brits and US bloggers blogged.
The paradox for today is the following one: Why did so many UK female bloggers agree in their response to the survey that they blogged mainly for their own records?
The majority of all other respondents stated that they did NOT blog mainly for their own records. UK males: 26 no to 6 yes, US males 27 no to 4 yes and US females 21 no to 7 yes. However, 14 UK females said yes, they did blog mainly for their own records, against 14 who said no, they didn't. So 50%, a much greater percentage than for any other group. Why?

Doing the blog roll analysis

OK. Haven't posted all week because I have been doing two things. One is the revisions to an article for the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, which I finally sent back to them yesterday (Hooray). Secondly, I am ploughing on with the blogroll analysis. I have realised that it is essential to get this done as soon as possible because already one of the blogs I am studying has been closed down. So if I keep putting it off and doing things like analysing my survey data there will be no blogrolls left!
Plus, it is cold and very dark here and the water has been turned off for the day by the men digging up the road outside which means I can't even make a cup of tea. Moan.
But I hope that something approaching normal service will be returned next week.
One snippet from the analysis of the survey results that has been nagging at me though is this: far more Americans say that they blog early in the morning. Practically no Brits do this. Why is this? Are Americans used to doing things early in the morning? Is it a whole cultural thing I know nothing of? The concept of doing anything other than getting children ready for school and eating breakfast in the morning is alien to me so I would really appreciate any feedback (in the morning or the evening or whenever you like to blog).

Grampian Information workshop

I spent some time this afternoon talking at a workshop for the Grampian Information group. The talk basically introduced the blogosphere to the group and talked about how to blog, and why you should blog. This blog was used as a example for the group so I am hoping that I will get some links and comments!
Thank you ladies!

Analysis of blogrolls

So I am now about to start my analysis of the blogrolls. I will take note of links that do not work; the sex of the blogger, if possible, and their geographic location - at least the country hopefully county or town.
The rest of the week has been taken up by writing a presentation that I am giving next week for Grampian Information on the subject of blogging and also starting to write a paper that I am co-authoring with a recent student for a conference in Cambridge in January.
More analysis of the results of the survey coming this month, but the surveys are still being returned in dribs and drabs so I don't want to do anything too final yet.