August 2, 2001

12:37 AM

The Blogger Purity Test - Phase One"Stage One is a call for questions. Go to the site (http://pure.fury.com) and submit the questions that you think should be asked of webloggers. You can also read the most recent submissions from other bloggers and readers. The site will be open for submissions until August 15th, when a few of us will hide away and pick out the best 200 or so questions and present the test survey for the month of September. Then, it's tallying up the responses and seeing what the state-of-the-blogunion is for 2001.
posted by minjungkim (7 comments total)

Purity test... never seen THAT done before.
posted by smackfu at 6:34 AM on August 2, 2001

Well, really more of a Purity Survey. The survey's not so much for a 'har-har I'm a 63% pure blogger' than it is to create a real profile of seeing what's important about blogging to the people who do it, and how peoples views, motivations, and methods of blogging vary across the board.

Of course, there will also be a bunch of sex and meme questions, but that's just a bonus.

After the test is closed at the end of September, we'll be writing it all up into reports so we can finally get numbers about this big bloggy world we live in.
posted by kfury at 6:51 AM on August 2, 2001

it is to create a real profile of seeing what's important about blogging to the people who do it, and how peoples views, motivations, and methods of blogging vary across the board.

Oh, come on, Kevin.

This is all about "Have you ever fondled someone below the waist and blogged about it the next day?"

This is all about "Have you ever blogged under the influence?"

This is all about "Have you ever caught an MSTD (Microsoft-transmitted disease) from another blogger?"

This is all about "Have you ever caught someone else posting to your blog?"

This is all about "Have you ever self-linked on MetaFilter?"

None of this hyper-pretentious "important to the blogging community" crap. Like this is science.

That said, I've just pumped maybe 30 questions into the database. I can't wait to see the results.
posted by mikewas at 7:40 AM on August 2, 2001

Obviously questions about blogger-transmitted or microsoft-transmitted diseases are important to the blogger community! The survey's final reflections on bloggerdom will be drawn as much from the questions asked (submitted) as from the answers themselves. Probably more.

Heck, at least I didn't self-link on MeFi.
posted by kfury at 9:02 AM on August 2, 2001

Are you now or have you ever considered starting a LiveJournal?
posted by darukaru at 10:35 AM on August 2, 2001

Have you ever praised an A-lister on your blog in hopes they'd notice and reverse link?
posted by Steven Den Beste at 11:43 AM on August 2, 2001

i have i have... oh, you mean this isn't the survey?
posted by r-boogie at 3:34 PM on August 2, 2001