Blogging On a Sunday

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   Its official. After growing rather suspicious over the last few months, I was becoming very concerned that the rumours were true -- that people don't read livejournal on the weekend.

   So this morning I participated in my favourite activity: getting up at 8am to smash statistics together from random livejournals while procrastinating doing something completely different (writing that long overdue OPEC paper for MUN)!!
   If you're curious about the mechanics behind my brilliantly conceived research project, you can read more about it here.

   The bottem line is that out of 25 randomly generated livejournals, 18 were too crappy to have enough entries / comments in the last two months to be of any value. But of those remaining seven, the HIGHEST proportion of average comments received on Saturday to those received during an average weekday was 73%. The median was 52%.
   So basically, your entries on the weekend will get half as many comments on average as those you make during the week (from which we extrapolate that half as many people will ever even see your entry on the weekend, since we have no reason to believe there's a disconnect between reading and commenting here).



   HOWEVER, then I ran myself. And _I_ have 30% more comments on average per entry on the WEEKEND than during weekdays!! ...but I think that maye be because my entry about Mackeson Triple Stout got the most comments of any entries I made in the last two months and fell on a Saturday.


Further Reading
More Detailed Write-Up of the Experiment
The Data
Other Similar Studies

Comments

[hereticxxii.livejournal.com]

I read LJ on the weekends and it makes me feel dirty in my mouth!!!

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

The weekend is the blog-sabbath!!

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

LJ Users Facts:

People who are really busy don't blog much.*
HOWEVER, and this is important:
People who are really busy ON THE COMPUTER blog constantly!

The more critical the work to be done on the computer is, the more procrastinatory blogging will be done. The exception will be in the final hour before the paper is to be turned in.

*People who are really busy in this sense refers to people actually engaged in life partying, hiking, working, etc. (As opposed to those engaged in school work or office work.)

To sum up: Friday night is the LJ black hole of the week. August is the LJ blck hole of the year.