Blogger typology

Posted on October 31, 2002 @ 10:41 in General

Good fun, Portrait of a Blogger, though I kind of miss the Research Blogger.

Research Blogger (Reblogger)

Percentage of blogger population: 1.634%
Hours spent blogging: 10/week (varies heavily with approaching deadlines)
Habitat: Typically found at a desk somewhere in an university department, often sharing a room with other students, although quite a few are known to also blog from home. Rebloggers however also travel and take the opportunity to blog from other universities and conference venues.
Average Age: MA level Rebloggers in their early twenties, while PhD Rebloggers are approaching their thirties with alarming speed.
Favorite hangout: Air-L
Last Book Read: Postmodernism: A Reader.
Favorite Offline Activities: Movies and books.
Mode of Dress: Casually, although this varies with geographic location: the northern countries displaying a much shabbier appearance than more southern countries.
Psychological profile: INTP
Typical post: Oh, cool! I found this amazing repository of links to faux cities in America, ranging from well known examples like Disneyland to lesser known 'ghost town' type fake cities like Legend City near Phoenix. For research sake I should really visit them all, let's see who's going to be silly enough to fund this trip ;-) Seriously though, this really helps with the discussion I'm writing up now for my dissertation (well, would be writing up if I weren't blogging this, damn... now I feel guilty all over again) on the Real and the Virtual (Baudrillard: simulacrum; Lyotard: the unrepresentable in representation itself; Lacan: phantasmatic; Eco's rephrasing of Baudrillard's Disneyland example; I could go on...). Better get back to writing this up, I'm really excited about this!

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  1. Yes, I did miss some of them. I did a second piece (a little different) here: http://www.sporks-r-us.com/story/2002/10/31/104418/88

    Thanks!

    Posted by kpaul on November 01, 2002 @ 17:59

  2. Heh, that's weird. I found your other piece through another blog and was writing up the post on it as you were commenting on this one.

    Posted by Frank on November 01, 2002 @ 19:40

  3. the internet is weird like that sometimes. like a few weeks ago i helped someone with a computer problem and they posted it on their blog. a couple days later i noticed hits comign from Germany. it turns out someone in Germany was watching the blog and the answer to the problem helped him too.

    nice site you have, btw.

    Posted by kpaul on November 02, 2002 @ 05:31

  4. :-)

    Posted by Frank on November 04, 2002 @ 11:02

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