(July 2009) Blogger Perspectives on Digital Preservation: Attributes, Behaviors and Preferences
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This document summarizes a survey of over 200 bloggers about their digital preservation perspectives, behaviors, and preferences. Some key findings: - Most bloggers post multiple times per week and spend 1-2 hours working on their blogs. Over half have been blogging for 3 years or more. - Most host their blogs on blog service providers or commercial servers. Over 70% agree their own blogs should be preserved, but fewer think all blogs should be. - While over half would not pay for their own blog to be preserved, bloggers see preservation of at least some content as important. Factors like audience size and uniqueness were seen as relevant to selection criteria.
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(July 2009) Blogger Perspectives on Digital Preservation: Attributes, Behaviors and Preferences
- 1. Blogger Perspectives on Digital Preservation: Attributes, Behaviors, and Preferences Carolyn Hank School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Future of Today’s Legal Scholarship Georgetown Law Library July 25, 2009
- 2. Bloggers % post several posts a week
- 3. Bloggers hours working on blogs a week (Mode = 1 - 2 hours)
- 4. Bloggers % read other blogs daily
- 5. core group 33 Web Survey 223 completed surveys 46 questions Active bloggers Snowball Technique Method…
- 6. Bloggers % have blogged for 3 years or more
- 7. Bloggers % % contribute to two or contribute to two or more single-author blogs more collaborative blogs
- 8. Identity 56 % 20% 24 % Real name | Both | Pseudonym
- 9. Topical Areas Professional Technology Personal Academic News Politics Hobbies Entertainment Family/friend Religion Business Health Sport .
- 10. Audiences Customer 7.40% Family 27.40% Myself* 40.90% General Public 54.40% Friends 55.80% Colleagues/Professional Peers 63.70%
- 11. Preservation 71 36 blogs should be % agree that their own % agree that every blog should be preserved preserved
- 12. Hosting 1.60% 1.60% | Other non-commercial server 2.10% 2.10% | Aggregated blogs 3.60% | Commercial blog provider 3.60% | Server at school 7.30% | Social networking site 13.50% | Server at work 14.50% | Commercial server 16.10% | Own server Blog service provider 86%
- 13. Composing Often use blog editor Alternative way: Word processor (desktop and online) Email composer Mobile phone/PDA Desktop plug-in blog editor Instant messenger
- 14. Password 2% require password to view ALL % posts require password to view CERTAIN posts
- 15. EDIT Posts 96 % edited content after it was posted Spelling & grammatical errors Rephrasing Updating links Erroneous information
- 16. DELETE Posts 39 deleted content after it was posted % Remove opinions no longer held Remove info no longer correct Erroneous information
- 17. DELETE Entire Blog 23 have deleted an entire blog %
- 18. Presentation 84 have changed the % appearance of their blogs
- 19. Duplication 67 36 % duplicate some posts (18% duplicate all) % duplicate some comments (12% duplicate all)
- 20. Responsibility 100% Blog authors/owners 90% 80% IT department Software providers 70% Libraries/archives 60% Public trust 50% Search engine 40% 30% Own blog Blogs in general Blog general
- 21. Investment 54 Would not pay to % preserve their OWN ANNUAL $1 – 200 Avg. $36.82 blog
- 22. Characteristics * Unique/innovative content * Cultural significance of bloggers * Preservation preference Important
- 23. Characteristics * Number of readers * Age of blog * Size of blog Unimportant
- 24. Selection Criteria context | representative & significant content | subject & attribute style | expression & utility format | elements (next slide) audience | readership & preference author | credentials & affiliations
- 25. Selection Criteria context Text Photos content Video Audio Comments Other_multimedia style K e y w o r d s format L i n k s Imported_images audience B o o k m a r k s author Imported_tags Feeds
- 26. Exclusion Criteria context | ephemeral & insignificant content | personal & inappropriate style | hate speech format | splog, storage concerns audience | popularity author | personal
- 27. Impact “I would seek back-up “[S]hout, files from the sys admin, plead to as I have a hard time my boss believing that a blog would just disappear.” not to fire “[D]rink some coffee me!” and do other hobby.” “I have no sense of identity invested in my Weblog, so I probably wouldn’t do anything, but simply let it go.”
- 28. Conclusions Findings Future Bloggers are interested Selection and appraisal Save some but not all Responsibility New content added Access scenarios Old content altered Versioning Personal responsibility Intellectual property Defining roles of others Changing roles
- 29. THANK YOU Acknowledgements… Songphan Choemprayong Laura Sheble Resources… http://archivepress.ulcc.ac.uk/