Ev on Weblog Stats

Ev responds to our bloggerino about weblog statistics it’d be interesting to know:

…as far as I know, that data has not been collected. And, I agree, it would certainly be interesting. An easy way to derive a lot of it would be from the Blogger database — and/or the LiveJournal database. These are probably the richest and easiest-to-crunch sources of weblogging data, as they have all the data for all their users in one place. (Though their extrapolation to the rest of the blogging world would be up for debate, it’d be a good place to start.) (I’m not sure about editthispage and weblogs.com-hosted sites, because I don’t know how exactly that data is stored or how much of it there is.) I would love to have those numbers for my purposes and be glad to share them if I did. My only problem is I don’t have time to do all the analysis – or the money to pay someone to do it. At least not right now. Hopefully, soon. Alternatively, I would be open to giving access to someone who wanted to do the crunching for non-commercial purposes – perhaps for a student project or someone just for fun. Feel free to put that word out.

Consider it put – although putting out a word in this obscure weblog may be more like putting out a fire.

But here’s the big news: Ev expects to have money soon! Perhaps he has insider information that the world is about to become a just and fair place…

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