Comments on: Polls, polls and more polls

By: eszter

eszter — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 01:06:31 +0000

Thanks for the interesting example, John. And yes, both Kaus and Instapundit linked to the blog, my links to their sites are to the pages where they mentioned Mystery Pollster.

By: John Bragg

John Bragg — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:22:05 +0000

I don’t think it’s any kind of breach of etiquette at all. Kaus is “Mystery Pollster”s blogfather, and Instapundit probably linked to him as well (I’m too lazy to check). It is worthy of note that the recommendation came from a non-obvious source. Second, it speaks to the professional credibility of the blog. As a high school teacher (and heavy blog consumer), if an acquaintance in the District Testing Department mentioned a website that provided links and daily running commentary on educational testing issues (avoiding the term blog because they don’t know the word), that would be worthy of notice, both in terms of testing policy and in terms of blogosphere anthropology.

By: eszter

eszter — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 19:58:56 +0000

Eudoxis – There are very little generalizable data available about blog readers or the average Internet user’s blog reading habits so it’s hard to answer your question. The little data I have seen suggest that just a small portion of Net users read blogs at all. But these data don’t address their reading habits (e.g. frequency of blog visits).

By: dsquared

dsquared — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:46:30 +0000

I love Crooked Timber, but the manners here can occasionally be atrocious They certainly can; get stuffed.

By: eudoxis

eudoxis — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:01:30 +0000

Does this mean, eszter, that the occasional blog reader is rare? Am I wrong in assuming that there is a fairly normal spectrum of blog reading habits?

By: eszter

eszter — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:59:03 +0000

Richard, you missed the point entirely. The point was to suggest that people who don’t read blogs still know about blogs and recommend blogs. For those of us who think about who reads blogs that may be an interesting observation. Maybe, on occasion, you should not try to read so much (so little?) into what’s said on this blog.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:33:54 +0000

Is there a point to writing “I didn’t find it through Kausfiles or Instapundit”. Are you supposed to get some intellectual purity points for this? Are you above reading Kausfiles or Instapundit? I love Crooked Timber, but the manners here can occasionally be atrocious.

By: Chris Bertram

Chris Bertram — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 07:28:01 +0000

The UK equivalent is Anthony Wells href=”http://anthonywells.typepad.com/anthony_wells/” rel=”nofollow”>http://anthonywells.typepad.com/anthony_wells/ . He recently wrote a guide to the methodology of the the leading polling organizations (for the UK) here href=”http://anthonywells.typepad.com/anthony_wells/2004/09/index.html” rel=”nofollow”>http://anthonywells.typepad.com/anthony_wells/2004/09/index.html .