This document summarizes the findings of a survey of bloggers about their perspectives on blog preservation. Key findings include:
- Most bloggers spend 1-2 hours per week working on their blogs and read other blogs daily. Over 20% have been blogging for 3 years or more.
- Bloggers host their blogs in a variety of places, most commonly on blog service provider sites. They compose and edit posts using various tools.
- While most bloggers agree their own blogs should be preserved, there is less agreement that all blogs deserve preservation. The document outlines criteria for selecting blogs for preservation.
- Future work should reconsider sampling approaches, retool survey instruments, and focus on archival activities, intellectual property, and access scenarios
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(Nov 2007) Informing Blog Appraisal through Bloggers Perspectives on Selection and Preservation
1. Informing Blog
Appraisal Through
Bloggers’ Perspectives
Carolyn Hank
Laura Sheble
Songphan Choemprayong
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://persistentblog.wordpress.com
10. Audiences
Customer
7.40%
Family 27.40%
Myself* 40.90%
General Public 54.40%
Friends 55.80%
Colleagues/Professional Peers 63.70%
11. Preservation
% %
agree that their own agree that every
blogs should be blog should be
preserved preserved
12. Hosting
1.60% | Other non-commercial server
2.10% | Aggregated blogs
3.60% | Commercial blog provider
3.60% | Server at school
7.30% | Social networking site
13.50% | Server at work
14.50% | Commercial server
16.10% | Own server
Blog service provider 86%
15. EDIT Posts
Spelling & grammatical errors
Rephrasing
Update links
% Erroneous information
edited content after
it was posted
16. DELETE Posts
-Remove opinions that are no
longer hold
Remove information that is no longer
correct
% -Erroneous information
deleted content
after it was posted
18. Presentation
%
have changed the
appearance of their
blogs
19. Duplication
% %
duplicate some blog duplicate some
posts. comments
(18% duplicate all) (12% duplicate all)
20. Responsibility
100%
Blog authors/owners
90%
80% IT department
Software providers
70% Libraries/archives
60% Public trust
50% Search engine
40%
30%
Own blog Blogs in general
Blog general
27. Selection
Criteria
context Text Photos
content Video Audio Other_multimedia
Comments
style K e y w o r d s
format L i n k s
Imported_images
audience B o o k m a r k s
author Imported_tags Feeds
29. Selection
Criteria
context Professional
Personal
content Institutional
Collaborative
style Expert & Notable
format Author preference
audience
author
30. Exclusion
Criteria
context | ephemeral & insignificant
content | personal & inappropriate
style | hate speech
format | splog, storage concerns
audience | popularity
author | personal
31. Conclusions
Findings Future
Bloggers are interested Reconsider our sampling
Save some but not all Retool the instrument
New content added Dedicated foci:
Old content altered ….. Archival activities
Personal responsibility ….. Intellectual Property
Defining roles of others ….. Access scenarios