OK, data posted for cars, cable vs. DSL; as with yesterday’s gusher, only bloggers can access these chunks of data for now.



The data is still jelling, but we’ve decided to release some preview slices for things like flossing, commutes and pet preferences. Here’s an aggregate view of those answers. You can see this data for individual blogs by clicking on the icons on the front page.

Blogs who have more than 20 responses to their own surveys can log in, click “account” and see data for age, sex, income, location, education level, party affiliations, party preferences, ethnicity, religion and, to wash all that dry data down, beer preferences. (Right now, this core data is locked private until the survey is completed so results don’t skew ongoing surveys.)



Badges?

May 11th, 2007 by Henry Copeland

We’re playing around with badges that bloggers could use to link to their stats pages. Here are some ideas. Any preferences or suggestions?

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As the business of news becomes commoditized, it’s possible the only media jobs remaining in America are those in which unique context and voice — blogging! — can’t be transplanted.



100k

May 10th, 2007 by Henry Copeland

You may have noticed that we passed the 100k survey responses mark earlier today. Thank to those 100,000 people and to the 600-odd bloggers who have so far sent their readers along.



Tomorrow we turn on data breakouts for some fun questions: when did you start reading blogs, do you floss regularly, your average round-trip commute and cats or dogs?

If your blog has these graphs set to “public,” they’ll be available via the front page, your account interface or at a URL like blogreaderproject.com/data/blogname.

Here’s a preview for graphs of responses to the Blogads blog.

After that’s working smoothly, we’ll turn on individual blogger access to his/her own blog survey results.



Everybody’s got a different style for asking readers to take the survey. As you’d expect from great bloggers, Andy Towle and Max Sawicky both had very different appeals to their readers.



Want to take the reader survey for the BRP’s own blog? Go express your own blog reader demographics.



Thank you

April 26th, 2007 by Henry Copeland

Well, we’ll be taking a few surveys today. Hoping to reach maybe 100 bloggers by middle of next week, at which point we’ll be ready to shuck beta. Thank you to John Hlinko, John Aravosis, Christopher Conklin, Michael Bassik, Micah Sifry, and Amit Gupta for helping us conceptualize questions. And a huge thanks to the folks at SurveyMonkey, whose incredible service forms the backbone for the actual surveys.



Slashdot: “In the case of Canadian web site Digital Home, already hit with an advertising boycott by Bell Canada over the site’s pro-consumer editorial content, the site’s owner is now in danger of ending operations, apparently due to the inaccuracies of ComScore rankings. For example, Google Analytics reported Digital Home served up over 2.7 million page views in January to almost 250,000 unique visitors. A web buyer at one of Canada’s largest advertising agencies confirmed that ComScore reported just 32,000 visitors. Added to this is ComScore’s secretly-installed spyware troubles.”