The Agrinautica

   Okay so I don't know how this happened but I had a weird posting mishap. These "Blogology" posts I've been posting in the morning, because, you know, it's a better time to post, but I don't have time to write them; but I don't have time to write an entry in the morning so I write them the night before and hit "post" the next morning. This partially relies on the lj "draft autosave" feature but I also save it as a notepad text file in case it fails to upload. Now of course the other problem is in the morning I'm in a hurry and might not have had all my coffee yet. So last week I definitely remember booting up the computer, loading up the draft, clicking "post" and then shutting down my computer and going about my morning. However, if I recall correctly, a few hours later I looked on my phone for the entry to see if there were any comments and couldn't find the entry at all. So I think I loaded the "post an entry" page from my phone and then posted it from there. By the end of the day there were no comments at all which was kind of unusual so I looked at the entry again and saw it was somehow dated to the previous week, so I changed the date to the current week, though it seemed to be too late, there were never any comments.
   Just now I was looked for the second-to-last most recent entry in the series and couldn't find it, and I realized, what I somehow did last week was overwrite the previous entry! My guess is when I opened livejournal on my phone it auto loaded that actual entry for some reason instead of the post new entry... or something. Fortunately I still have the text of the overwritten entry in the comment notification email I got to its one comment so I can resurrect it from that. And in the mean time here's the entry from last week you probably didn't see:

   So last week we looked at the effect of days since last entry on comments to entries on livejournal, this week we'll look at something slightly different, the effect of number of entries in the previous week (preceding six days) on comments on entries:



   So what's interesting here is there's a much clearer burnout effect than in the "days since last entry" chart. The more entries you've posted in the previous week, the fewer comments you'll get on your subsequent entries.

   BUT also, what's kind of interesting, where the "days since" chart seemed to indicate if you just wanted to maximize your comments it was still better to post every day, this way of looking at it seems to indicate you'll actually maximize the total number of comments by posting about 4 entries a week. How do you square that with the "days since" chart? Well I guess if you post every other day, that's 5.75 commments per entry on that chart, which is better than the 5.45 average, though still less than what this chart says it should get you so maybe the posts previous to last which the first chart doesn't account for actually builds up some kind of blogmomentum, reverse burnout. Clearly this all needs more studying.


Unrelated Picture of the Day

   So as I mentioned last week, I've recently dusted off the old study of blogology.

   One of the most important findings from before was that it seemed to matter what day one posted an entry. The results (again, of number crunching from a number of randomly selected accounts) clearly indicated that Monday morning was the best time of the week to post. In general all weekday mornings were good, Weekday early afternoons were also alright, though weekday evenings weren't good. There was a small window that was good Saturday mornings and Sundays were an utter dead zone. I was wondering if this was still true, the internet and people's relationship with it having potentially changed in the decade-and-a-half since the initial study, and the demographic of readership having changed (though it may be the same people, they'd obviously be in a different place in life fifteen years later), and heck just being in a time zone 19 hours ahead.

   A quick google of "when's the best time to post a blog entry" seems to confirm the original finding, with most results saying "Monday morning and Thursday," though a few say other things. Anyway, so what did my recent analysis of 100+ recent entries of my own indicate?

Average unique commenters per entry, all entries: 5.65 (117 cases)
Average unique commenters per entry, weekdays: 5.03 (82 cases)
Average unique commenters per entry, Saturdays: 6.37 (19 cases)
Average unique commenters per entry, Sundays: 7.00 (16 cases)

   So this seems to turn the old results on their head. Sunday now seems the best time to post, followed by Saturday.

   BUT, quite plausibly the results could be skewed by the very fact that I knew Sundays were a bad time to post, and therefore only posted on Sundays when I had something particularly interesting to post (though 16 of 117 entries falling on a Sunday is actually exactly 1/7th of the total so they'd seem evenly distributed onto Sundays). For example, let's look at the difference between public entries and friends-only entries. You'd think all things being equal, an entry being friends-locked would make people less likely to see it, but in actual fact friends-locked entries probably represent a more interesting subset of entries.

Public entries: 4.88 unique commenters per entry.
Friends-locked entries: 7.03 unique commenters per entry.

   This obviously doesn't mean friends-locking your entries make them more engaging, but rather indicates how more interesting entries can "self select themselves" in statistical ways, as may be happening with Sundays.

   Anyway, since I saw the initial results some weeks ago I've been posting regularly on Sundays again, I'll be very interesting to see if now that I'm not trying to avoid Sundays if they still hold up a higher than average engagement rate or not.


Totally Unrelated Picture of the Day

And here's a picture from the drive mentioned in the previous Ethiopia entry.
Because entries with pictures get 19% more unique commenters ;) (5.80 vs 4.88) (and 70% more likes! 3.84 avg vs 2.25)

emo_snal

June 2007	entries (YTD)	friends-of	comments per entry
emo_snal	40	108	2.55
emosnail	202	186 (+10)	6.61

June 2008	entries (YTD)	friends-of	cmmnts/entry (YTD)
emo_snal	57	196 (+88)	6.05
emosnail	206	188 (+2)	4.62

June 2009	entries (YTD)	friends-of	cmmnts/entry (YTD)
emo_snal	219	483 (+287)	19.25
emosnail	166	210 (+12)	4.97

   If this pattern continues, clearly emo_snal shall takeover the blogosphere this upcoming year.

   emosnail had it's highest ratio of comments per entry in the June 2004 - June 2005 year, with 9.55, and has been on the decline ever since.
   My theory is that emosnail was oriented toward people I knew in real life, and in the years since we've graduated college they've all drifted away from lj, started procrastinating with the newer forms of media such as twitbook, and/or hate me. emo_snal however came to be boldly oriented entirely at the anonymous depths of the blogosphere, and this seems to be a much more viable plan.


Related - (previous fun with statistics)
June 2004 - Blogology IV - A look at the relevance of different blogging related statistics
June 2005 - Statistics Revisited - A second look at the same topic, but now with the first YTD data
June 2005 - Comments / Entry - A closer look at comments per entry
June 2006 - Blogological Statistics III - The tradition continues! More statistics, more average data posted for you to compare yourself to. Also some laughing at certain pretentious bloggers I know who had large losses of friend-ofs in the preceding year. lolz.
July 2007 - Blogological Statistics IV - Indroducing the control group! Irked that my previous sample group was based on 25 ljs I had specifically chosen to look at, I used the random lj finder to rustle up 20 truly random ljs for a more representative look at the state of the blogosphere.
June 2008 - Yearly Stats Snapshot - Just a brief one without much analysis. At this point it's a tradition. (:


Totally Unrelated Picture of the Day

A typical doorway in Zaragoza
(view mammoth version to admire the detail!)

   Every year in the general area of mid-June I've examined the statistics of blogology. I hate to let traditions die, so I ran the numbers again this year.
   Additionally, it has come to my attention that many blogs see rankings on a webpage called Technorati.com as the premier measure of how successful they are. As far as I can tell these rankings are entirely based on how many blogs have linked to your own blog in the last six months. Anyway, I included technorati rankings in my latest compilation so as to compare the usefulness of the technorati rankings.

Control Group
   Since my original sampling of statistics consisted only of livejournals I thought would give interesting results, it is far from a random sample. This is unfortunate, since a random sample is exactly who you need in order to get a blogosphere-wide "average" to compare things to.
   Fortunately livejournal has a "randomly select a livejournal" feature. I recently used this to create a 20 blog sample group.
   In assembling this I came across 5 that lacked friends-of or other information in their profiles, so we can assume approximately 25% of the lj-blogosphere would fall in this group. I discarded these livejournals. These ljs looked like they probably sucked though anyway. =D
   Seven of the 20 were written entirely in cyrillic. Theoretically this would imply 35% of ljs are Russian. (I did not discard these)

Medians: The Control Group had the following medians:
( How do you compare to the average blogger? )

Specimen Group Results
( You might be mentioned here )

Rating Rating Systems
( Is Technorati Divine? )

Picture of the Day

Texas, again


   Your homework is to help me figure out which pictures from the Epic Roadtrip Set I should also list in the The Best set.

   This is my 1,050th entry, which means I've averaged 20.2 entries / month over the last 1,562 days.

   Yesterday we had 30 in 30 updates from xaositecte, ironlioninzion, bartgroks, beastmario, eazyt, pavel_lishin, witless_nerd, abunchofcrap and emosnail. There are a few more that are following along "unofficially" or its unclear whether or not they've joined in (and/or there may be people I'm not aware of). To those who have not yet joined the premier internet related event of the year, fear not! It is not too late to join up.
   Even if one didn't update yesterday, one can still start now and as long as one finishes 30 entries by the 30th one's still good (and thats only 3% harder than if you'd started yesterday)!

   My favourite of yesterday's entries goes to Xaositecte and his list of awards to be earned by one's friend further their social life. So to speak.


   Anyway, to drift into metabloggery for a moment, I thought I'd offer some ideas on what to blog about. A number of you have taken up a challenge to drastically increase your blogging and no doubt are rather concerned about this very question.
   First and foremost, the most optimum subject is of course something original and hilarious. Some examples that come to mind are professor_david's Jesus Cthulhu post of 30 in 30 II, apoplecticfittz's Ten Blogmandments (turns out religion is hilarious I guess), or xaositecte's 30 in 30 Standard Template.
   Remember that even the most innocuous adventures can be made hilarious with a little multimedia a la photoshop.
   Constantly take note of potential ideas. Stockpile them. Let them ferment. Then triple distill them.
   If the spark of creative hilarity just isn't ... sparking, you can probably go off on a philosophical / political rant about something.
   Keep your audience in mind. Speak to them specifically. Try to illicit feedback. Because not getting any feedback feels like you're talking to yourself. You can only truly transcend the blogosphere once you've made it interactive.
   For that matter, most of my best ideas have come from talking to other people. Go forth and have hilarious conversations with people via instant messenger or what have you (or god forbid, real life -- but certainly not myspace).
   Interact with the other 30 in 30 participants. Even if you don't know them! You're both going through the same thing.
   My empirical blogological research indicates there is a strong corrolation between commenting on other people's blogs and receiving comments on your own.
   Build on the themes other bloggers post on.
   Some topics have traditionally been done by several people, such as Five Television Proposals.
   Do something useful like BlogSETI.
   Do some amazing feat in real life and blog about it, such as the legendary time apoplecticfittz spent 24 hours in a greenhouse!

   For more wisdom and the technique and craft of blogology, see this tag.


   And now, if you will, I need to gather some information for research purposes.[Poll #996038]


Meanwhile In the Real World
   I went to a bar at The Block in Orange last night with Nidia & her friend Janice. The end.
   Today we learned that chickens float. One of our chickens was spooked by the dog next door and ran right into the pool. She bobbed there like a duck, only not nearly as graceful.

   Now, though earlier today I issued an encyclical urging you all not to post about your daily lives, I'm going to go ahead and do just that. But wait, before you declare me the antichrist, let me note that I bring you a photo essay -- a photo essay with drunken debauchery, people dressed up, and people practically naked! This, my friends, is almost always a recipe for an acceptable blogging. Also I already posted a less underbloggist entry today, and though I recused that one as being too recursive (being about 30 in 30 itself), I think together these two entries should meet blogthodox requirements.

   Last night Kristy & I attended both my Φ A Δ (Pre Law) formal & then Gina Scheffel's "Dress Your Best .. Or Not!" Party.

( See More! )

   Or see all these pictures and some more from thte party that I didn't work in here on flickr.


   For no particular reason I thought I'd link to one of my all time very favourite 30 in 30 posts now to inspire you all: Jesus Cthulhu.
   As to my best day 3 post choice, I'm not gonna beat around the bush, its going to apoplecticfittz again. Though original megabloggist philosophy¹ frowned upon the use of multimedia as taking away from the technique & craft, it was quickly seen that the use of images very greatly enhanced the achievable hilarity in entries. Even those without digital cameras can still find images on the internet to enhance their entries, and I would say I definitely encourage this. It helps counteract the debilitating effects of TL;DR, and frankly I think some of you need to turn some attention to the TL;DR issue.
   And so my point is: that apoplecticfittz's post for today is a brilliant example of how a simple office prank can be turned into a hilarious blogccomplishment through effective use of multimedia.

   Another example of good use of multimedia I'd like to recognize is orwell_troll's first post (ever, actually). The simple addition of a 51st star to the US flag demonstrates how very simple a brilliant idea can be. In addition to the aforementioned Brent "Darth Laabs" Laabs, I'd like to give a shout out to the other people who have either joined 30 in 30 since my last post or I just forgot them at that time: gerbilgrrl, professor_david, the mysterious anonymous_frosh, punitrebel, and the venerable citizene (reporting from Singapore).


Previously in the Blogosphere
   Three Years Ago Today: UCD MUN Conference 2003 - First annual UCD MUN Conference. To this day they were my favourite committee ever.
   Two Years Ago: 30 in 30 I, Day 3 - shekb declares the pulitzer prize "tapped out." I didn't think the entry was that funny but comments from other participants seem to laud it as blogging gold. lerani posted about Dennis Quaid & the Sharks, and how you can get him to touch your enemies. stephenl decides that “The fact is, girls can't keep their pants on when they encounter a guy who's big into anime,” which is further proven by the fact that shid is now engaged. Also, bloglarious as usual, apoplecticfittz posts a must-see entry about gummy bear porn - I swear its tasteful ::caugh, get it?::.
   Year Ago Today: 30 in 30 II, Day 3 - From the Field - Phonepost abilities unexpectedly failing me, I desperately make a post from some random person's house in Santa Barbara. Not much of a post, but I had to use maximum intrepidness to get it done at all and its the thought that counts, no?

   Tonight's entry was supposed to be super simple because rather than spend time on an entry today I've been looking for a job. Like any big project, this first involves perusing the internet, the academic equivalent of getting into a pool by inching in from the shallow end -- one gets to experience all the anticipated ill effects ("its so cold!" or "this is so tedious," respectively) while still being "useful" and even kind of procrastinating really getting to work.
   But I do have a pile of emails that have accumulated in my inbox (57 to be exact) which were internship opportunities that I decided needed further consideration when they first appeared in my inbox. Likely its too late for any of these now, but I'm desperate not to become a sandwich jockey or coffee technician. I'd rather become a cook (again)!
   If anyone has any suggestions on most preferably meritious internships, or at least jobs that aren't insultingly robotic, that would be highly appreciated. Ability to retain mohawk a plus, but it'll lose out against a decent job.

   So this entry was supposed to be simple. I was going to produce the ranked results of my earlier blogological study on one category, revealing who actually had been included in the research. However, my computer being ridiculous, it informed me that the document was irreperably damaged, as its been fond of telling me about all kinds of things. Fortunately I sent a copy to apoplecticfittz so he may have the only undamaged version now.
   I was however able after some fighting with the machine, and perhaps because I'd transferred the file to the other computer here (there are multiple computers networked together here in my ancestral abode in Mission Viejo) by this point, I was able to get a somewhat damaged version of the file open.
   And so, I present to you, comments received per entry, as of mid June 2005. The included livejournals were selected largely based on me wanting to see what some more of what I suspected to be megabloggers, underbloggers, averagebloggers, or what have you, looked like. So results might not be typical of the entire blogosphere.

otimus 88.6 (number artificially high due to deletion of entries)
apoplecticfittz 48.6
incomple 33.1
rote 27.1
theuglyvolvo 26.2
professor_david 12.0
mr_mitts 10.4
giantlaser 10.3
jdryznar 9.46 (an early philosopher of blogology)
emd 8.34
emosnail 6.91
shid 5.24
roxymartini 5.20 (an official enemy of the people)
jegskaltisse 4.75 (friends-only)
myspoonis2big 4.52
citizene 4.25 (totally underrated)
nibot 3.56
basicallyasap 3.54 (remarkably beautiful)
geni_ratto05 2.76
deluxed 2.25 (disabled comments for 30 in 30 -- wtf?)
gennadotorg 2.05 (new user)
afoxygoddess 1.35
obisan69 1.20
thiswallflower 1.11
thetalesend .395

   Man I'm getting a lot of blog mileage out of this study. (=


Picture of the Day

   A dragonfly I took a picture of on Sunday. Taking a picture of a dragonfly in flight is rather difficult with a camera that has a long shutter delay d= Full report on Sunday's adventure coming eventually.. maybe tomorrow?


Previously on Emosnail
   Two Years Ago Today: Some things explained - and getting recertified in CPR to work at Wild Rivers
   Year Ago Today: 19 of 30 - Former Diedrichs Crew: Where Are They Now? - Ah the crew that used to hang out at Diedrichs. That was back in the day. I thought I had a livejournal entry where I talked about everyone but apparently I don't? It doesn't appear to be in memories anyway

   A year ago in the study published in my 18th 30 in 30 entry I found that otimus had no less than 750 people on his friends list, with 143 friends-of, and 49 livejournal entries. This gave him the whopping ratio of 5.2 to 1 friends/friend-of. A year later I ran the numbers again, and this time otimus has 23 friends, 193 friends-of, and 37 entris. Whereas before he had had about five times the ratio of anyone else, now has by far the smallest ratio at 0.119 to 1.
   Also the deleted entries have caused his comments / entry to rocket up to about 88 / entry. Compare this to the next highest, apoplecticfittz with 48.6 and the average of 11. But did this craziness succeed in what I'd imagine its intended purpose was, to give him a throbbing friends-of list? Last year he had an average of 5.1 people friending him per month, now its 4.8.

   A year ago emd was new to the blogosphere and had a friends/friends-of ratio of 1.66, with comments per entry at 3.69. Since then she has quadrupled her friends-of list, and developed a bulging friends/friends-of ratio of 6.89, and not through any kind of trickery either -- her friends list itself has increased 176%, the highest increase of those studied, except for thetalesend who went from 6 to 13 friends and fucked up the numbers. Now emd gets 8.34 comments per entry

   The study was expanded from 20 to 25 livejournals studied, with three of the originals either inactive or no longer displaying their friends-of information (tingsquared!). Its important to note of course that these livejournals were not randomly selected, so comparative numbers might not be representative of the entire blogosphere. I bet someone with some computering skills could make a program or something that would run all these numbers rather than me being required to enter things by hand into excel. Then I could go on a statistical rampage.


   I already rather explained my thoughts on the statistics last year, but I'll go over them again in brief: my conclusions are that friends/friends-of ratio is a bogus indicator of blogging quality, because it encourages bloglitism (pronounced "blog-leet-ism") in keeping one's friends list low purely for the numbers. Many people who fancy themselves to be be kings or queens of the blogosphere and feel inadequate about the size of their friends-of will actually hide it from the world. Its perfectly healthy to have a ratio as high as the 1.2:1s, so don't be afraid, show off your blogsecurity and blogconfidence instead and whup out your friends-of list for all to see. If one is below .6(:1) though one is either awesome or bloglitest. (average of group studied: 0.91)
   Comments per entry is in my opinion the best indicator of someone who is an outstanding member of the blogosphere. High comment levels either indicate discussion inducing entries, or a livejournalist with great convsersational skills.... either that or they've been running around flaming people. 36% of those studied had less than four comments per entry, 56% had less than 6. Then there's a group with between 6 and 12 (24% of total), after which numbers hoot up with the top 20% averaging 45 comments per entry. (Average of group studied: 11.4, but the bottem 80% only averages 4.98)
   The other thing I think is a noteworthy indicator of megablogging skill is friends-of / month, which is kind of like looking at the friends-of list and then weighting it for time the livejournal has been existant. Top two in this category are giantlaser who was blogging from Iraq, and theuglyvolvo, with 16 and 13 respectively. In third we have emd with 8.7. I'd imagine this number starts out high with new livejournals and then decelerates, so far there have been only three livejournals studied at less than a year of age, two of which got exactly 7.00. (Group average: 4.42)


   In the past year my own comments have increased from an avg of 5.43 to 9.66 comments per entry over the last year. Friends list increased 136% while friends-of list increased 135%.


   And now I've probably bored you to tears. I'm sorry, I just wanted to see how things had changed since last year. Someone with skill, write me a program to do this. Otherwise, if you're interested in seeing how you compare to everyone else, ask me, and if you've already been included or ask really nicely, I'll tell you.


Previously on Emosnail
   Two Years Ago Today: Naught but a Meme - those things are only fun if you edit the results
   Year Ago Today: 4 of 30 - Discussion Topics - What a good idea. I should do that again. I posted a bunch of questions for the readers to answer, like which member of the US Executive Office would be most likely to grow an awesome mohawk, or which band would Saddam Hussain most likely to be a part of?

This is my 37th post in 30 days. 30 days ago seven brave (foolish) "megabloggers" took a solomn vow to write one entry every day during the month of June. These legendary bloggists were stephenl, shekb, apoplecticfittz, madchenfittz, incomple, tonyz, feuders. Thirty days later several had suffered gruesome death under the burden of 30 in 30, yet new livejournalists eagerly took their place! stephenl, shekb and tonyz had dropped out only to be replaced by emosnail and lerani.
   lerani in fact apparently made 40 posts in 30 days, beating even me. ::shakes fist::

   While everyone else will probably return to posting 4.3 times a month (though I notice incomple has posted again already), I'm not going as far away, as I will probably return to my previous 26.2 entries. If you are terribly inconsolable without me flooding your friends list and are particularly emphatic about wanting me to up my post levels again I MIGHT be persuaded to go up to 27.3 entries per month but I don't make any promises.

   I'd write a more researched best of 30 in 30 entry like Lerani's but I once again spent all evening in a fetal position on my bed and now have ten minutes to midnight. Do I get a prize for posting closest to the wire?

   In summary, this is a crappy finale as compared to everyone elses, but I'd like to feebly defend myself with a quote nearly every other member of 30 in 30 used today: "I HATE YOU ALL AND HOPE YOU DIE"

   Goodnight everyone, you'll be seeing a lot less of me on your friends list.

   I swear I'm developing a stockpile of ideas here OTHER than adding more speculation to my nonesense theories of bloggerdom, but in case you haven't gathered, I'm pretty hepped up on this new theoretical field. Yesterday I mainly focused on identifiable subcategories of underblogging, so today I'm going to illuminate the topic of megablogging. I promise after this I'm going to try to keep my theorizing to schoolofblog. For those who have no idea what the crap I'm talking about, see the entry which heralds this new era of my insanity.
   Let me emphasize that no, I'm not "becoming an lj elitist," these are not rules that one should try to follow, these are categories which attempt to describe pre-existant habits of lj users. When I speak of things that "ideally" and "should" be done, I'm speaking of efforts to attain the theoretical goal of megablogging, maximum readership. I am not becoming an elitist, I am becoming a blogologist. (=

Megabloggery
   It seems to me, or at least according to what a scribbled on my bookstore reciept while on the bus today, that I have identified at least three categories of megabloggists. Again, megabloggery is the general writing for readership rather than to express what you've been up to ("attention whoring" if you want to be derisive).

   Let us start with what I've termed the flameblogger. These infamous individuals are commonly found in communities and try to gain attention through controversy. I had a rare encounter with one myself just today in fact. Kristy tells me I was just giving him what he wanted by responding, but hey I thoroughly enjoyed taking the unusual opportunity to thoroughly cuss at someone (if you know me you'll know how rare this is) and it would be petty of me to forego that pleasure merely to spite them.

   Next we have a subcategory with subgroups of its own. This is noveltybloggers. The three subgroups are pollbloggers, quizbloggers, & memebloggers. As you can imagine, the defining feature of these groups is that they find things on the internet and decide to post them, much like birds that collect shiny objects.
   nonmerci had this uncomplimentry but colourful description of the pollblogger in her eyes: "the pollblogger lacks any substantial content (whether that content be of a mega or underblogger variety), and is only able to supplement his/her journal by posting various livejournal polls that are only answered out of boredom and embarassment (as the pollblogger's friends are generally good samaritans who feel sorry for the pollblogger and wish to heighten his/her self-esteem). the pollblogger generally lives a vapid, innocuous existence, is oftentimes overweight and/or unattractive, and seeks validation through unhealthy online relationships. generally, the pollblogger will spend his/her days posting repeated polls, until either becoming a quizblogger (or a mixture of the two), an underblogger, or a permanent member of the realosphere. it should be noted that occasionally a pollblogger may elevate his/her status to that of a megablogger, but this is extremely rare and thus does not bear mentioning." (comment in schoolofblog)
   Personally I think pollblogging can be done well, and I really really don't see the point of memes that process outcomes entirely based on your username and one or two other inputs (as opposed to more complex ones that actually do calculate out interesting things based on real data). But I think its important that no valuative judgements be included in the blogosphere theory, it must be an objective science.

   Thirdly we have undermegabloggers. Yes I called myself a megaunderblogger initially, but on further reflection this category fits better under the general megabloggery hemiblogsphere, since the underblogs are characterized by very little concern for readership. I'd be willing to concede that perhaps there are undermegablogs and megaunderblogs.

   Finally there are megablogs proper, megablogs for megabloggery's sake, and the really succesful ones, the ultramegablogs, which have such a large audience that the author can't hope to interact with more than a small number of them. Examples of general megablogs include most of the participants in the 30 blogs in 30 days challenge (follow links elsewhere if curious, I've made enough to them already for now) or say our own citizene.


   In completely unrelated news, I just finished my last final, holy crap I'm now a senior!


Poll of the Day
   Rate the following features frequently found in the Emosnail livejournal, according to the following general guideline:
5 - increase use of the feature!
4 - I very much appreciate the feature
3 - its a'right keep it about how it is
2 - use it less
1 - eliminate it all together please
[Poll #309615]
EDIT: I should have known nibot would as usual mess with my quiz results by categorically voting against everything.


Related
   Crossposts: My entries in schoolofblog, though they're the same there as here
   Year Ago Today: STILL in Davis - "I think I'm in hell"