Homepages and weblogs
Posted on October 22, 2002 @ 16:47 in Research
Quite, I'll say... If you point Google towards the domain of one of Holland's bigger providers (home.planet.nl) and you search for "blog" it returns 70 hits, many of which point to one user's site. If you search the same domain for "weblog" you get 113 hits that are spread out much more evenly over different users. However, if you search the home.planet.nl domain with the term "homepage" you get approximately 22900 hits.
Interesting, blogging appears to be a relatively minor activity among Dutch internet users. Another Dutch ISP (XS4all, known for its tech savvy users) gives 201 and 741 vs 25500 hits respectively. Of course, they might be blogging on Blogspot or on their own domains, rather than on the webspace provided by their ISP. (One thing that's for sure is that Blogspot is pretty darn slow; most of the blogs need a little gentle coaching from the reload button a couple of times before they want to show up...) Searching Google for "nederlandse weblog" you get 6270 hits. Still not a whole lot... to be continued.
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weblogs are still in their infancy in the uk but the numbers are growing. Tell me, how could a researcher use ethnographic techniques to study blogs?
Posted by marc on October 22, 2002 @ 20:51
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