Kara Kerwin van www.karakerwin.net is voor haar studie bezig met een onderzoek naar linkgedrag op weblogs. Ze stuurde mij, en vele anderen een mailtje waarin ze lief vraagt of ik de volgende vragen voor haar wil beantwoorden:

*** Questionnaire ***
1. How long have you maintained your blog?
2. In the last week, how many entries did you post on your blog?
3. In the last week, how many hours have you spent writing entries for your blog, or otherwise maintaining your blog?
4. In the last week, approximately how many hyperlinks to external web sites (not your own) did you post within your entries?
5. Look at your first entry for March 20. If you do not have an entry on that day, use the next entry after that time. Did you include a hyperlink in that entry?
6. If yes, what page did that hyperlink point to?
7. (If you remember), where did you first encounter that hyperlink?
8. In general, how do you find the links that you add to your blog entries?
9. What criteria do you use to decide if you will add an external hyperlink to your blog entries?
10. Do you list permanent links to other blogs (such as a blogroll)?
11. If yes, what criteria do you use to decide if you will add those blogs to your site?
12. Do you list permanent links to other web sites (other than blogs)?
13. If so, what criteria do you use to decide if you will add those links to your site?
14. Approximately how many hours do you spend surfing the Internet in a typical day?
15. What sources do you rely on the most for your news information?
16. If applicable, please describe how you interact with other blogs. This would include, but is not limited to, leaving comments, following hyperlinks from entries, and following hyperlinks from blogrolls.
17. What criteria, if any, do you use to decide whether or not you will follow a hyperlink?
18. If applicable, please describe how visitors to your blog interact with you.
19. Is your writing style and content affected by having visitors to your site? If so, how?
20. What web sites, if any, have you visited today?

‘t zal iets voor strax worden *geeuw*