February 20, 2003

  • I’m in the process of “collecting raw data”: blog data.  And that’s a strange thing since it puts me in a meta-blog mentality.  I must become the quintessential blogologist and observe the accepted protocol of sampling: obtaining a large enough, representative sample through random collection techniques.   So while on the one hand, I read the random blog I encounter as I normally would, on the other hand, my objective is to capture, in a sense, harvest the blog info for later analysis, for what’s called “data reduction”—and that prior to “statistical analysis”.


    “Capturing” consists of saving the randomly-encountered posts in Word, graphics and all.  I now envision remaining in this “collection mode”  for at least a couple of days. 


    Meanwhile, aside, I will continue with my own blogging and commenting as before.  Even anthropologists, dutifully immersed in a culture to study it, need to take and, hopefully enjoy, their meals.

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