aggienaut | 30 in 30 III - 20 - Blogological Statistics III (Reply)

   This entry is post-dated from Friday, in preparation for my expected death on 06-18-06.

   For 30 in 30 I in 2004 I conducting a groundbreaking research study in the field of blogology, compiling a range of statistics on a sample group of bloggers based on data available on the userinfo pages. A year later I did a follow up during 30 in 30 II. And now, now its time for this year's annual update on what the statistics say about our intrepid sample experimental group.

   Among the additions to the study group this time was hipstomp, who is one of (if not THE) most popular bloggers on livejournal (according to some meme that went around a bit ago).
   As I've discussed before, many people see the ratio of friends / friends-of as the primary gage of blogging superiority, but my research has shown that this is a far better indicator of who is an ogre that frequently friends & defriends people than anything else. Of the people with the highest such ratios, hipstomp does lead with a friends-of list of 832% the size of his friends list, but one legitimately couldn't expect him to keep up with his 1315 friends-of. He is followed however, by noted blogletists otimus & incomple, with f-o lists of 738% & 253%, respectively. Differences of less than 30% though are probably more likely to reflect something real, though many very qualified bloggists are around the 1:1 ratio or less due to adding people back.

   A particularly interesting series of numbers are changes of friends-of numbers from last year. ASUCD Vice President gennadotorg has had the greatest increase of 305%, which may be because her lj was only 3 months old when last year's numbers were compiled, and it still had most of its growth in front of it. Comparatively, emd who was new last year, and had a 423% increase from the last year, has levelled out to the middle of the pack with 107%. On the other side of the spectrum, formerly renowned livejournal blogging from Iraq, giantlaser has had a 5% decrease in friends-of since resuming a more boring life in England, incomple is down 8%, otimus has lost 20% of his friends-of since last year (2.7 defriendings per entry)(and see last year's report on this for how he got those friends), and roter_terror has lost 72% of his friends-of since this time last year (such sauce!).

   See for yourself how you stack up against my study group using the group averages: (out of 30 livejournals) - friends: 123; friends-of (FO): 147; FO/friends: 1.08:1; entries: 536; comments / entry: 12.2; comments received / cmmnts made: 1.11:1; lj age: 40mo; FO/mo 4.3; FO/entry: .55; entry/mo: 13.4; comment received / mo: 118.3
   Or leave me a comment and, if I turn up alive, I'll give you more analysis of how you compare to everyone else.

Picture of the Day

Once again what can happen when you drunkenly pass out at a party.

Previously on Emosnail
   Three Years Ago Today: Done With Last Paper of the Year - Finally. And an awesome picture of an anteater.
   Two Years Ago Today: 30 in 30 I - 6, 7 & 8 - 11 Hours on Amtrack, Controversial Political Statements about farm subsidies, & Interview: The Sexual Confessions of shid.
   Year Ago Today: 30 in 30 II - The Journey Home - An epic odyssey across California.. or something.