Over at The Blog Herald I noticed they linked up to Christianity Today’s piece on Real Live Preacher. Underneath was a comment left by someone from BROG- Blog Research by Genre.
The paper, Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis “From the Bottom Up” will be presented in Hawaii at an International Conference on System Science January 2005.
It’s .pdf, and at some stage I need to download Adobe. (I hate the hassle of .pdf’s as much as I hate registration)
The abstract says:
This study empirically investigates the extentto which, and in what patterns, blogs are interconnected,taking as its point of departure randomly-selected blogs.Quantitative social network analysis, visualization of linkpatterns, and qualitative analysis of references andcomments in pairs of reciprocally-linked blogs show thatA-list blogs are overrepresented and central in thenetwork, although other groupings of blogs are moredensely interconnected. At the same time, a majority ofblogs link sparsely or not at all to other blogs in the sample…
I left the typos as is. This is a topic I’m interested in, but not enough right now to add extra tools and go through extra downloading to look at.
I’m be blunt-why don’t you go and download Acrobat?
It’s tough from a blog standpoint, since you can’t cut-and-paste pdf stuff, but I’m surpised that you haven’t downloaded it yet. There are enough pdf stuff out there that surfing without it is hard, especially if you’re looking for forms.
Sorry, that should be “I’ll be blunt.” Didn’t catch the typo in time.
LoL. To be blunt, laziness and irritation.
After having had to figure out how to download them to be readable on another site, I don’t care if I ever see one again. I haven’t figured out their value – they seem to be peculiar to academia.
You are right though,I’m being obtuse and obstreperous.
Try this:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_simple_form.html
It’ll convert any pdf file into HTML.