I recently came up with a good idea for a short story/novella that I think would be really cool to work on and have it out there for people to read. It will be a lot of work, but should be really interesting. I’m going to need some collaborators to work on this project. I’m reluctant to give too much information now, but it involves creating a WordPress site (that will feature fictional information about politics and the government, presented as real for the story). I’m looking for some designers and writers who would want to contribute. Contact me for more details about the project. I’m sure you’ll find it interesting.
A new study of 68,664 people from Forrester Research found that only 6% of Americans reported reading blogs.
The study, widely mentioned in the main stream media, also found that only 2% of Americans reported using RSS.
However, what was not made clear from the study results is whether the participants were actually asked if they knew what a blogs or RSS was, a problem that has been discovered previously, where many people read blogs or use RSS services (including My Yahoo!) without realizing the name of the technology they were viewing or using.
Why is this funny? Well, it seems to me that 90% (yes, i’m exaggerating this number, but it must be more than 6%) of Americans have blogs now (many having multiple blogs), so 6% reading means that either:
- A. This survey is really innacurate or
- B. No one reads your crappy blog.