Comments on: Cyberpsychology Thesis on Irish Blogging

By: Sinéad

Sinéad — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:01:08 +0000

Thanks very much Darren. Oh, nice blog by the way *subscribes*.

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:06:49 +0000

As a person who is relatively new to the blogosphere, I’ll happily have my brains picked.

This seems like a great project and I wish you all the best with it.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:54:53 +0000

hi Sinead — nope, don’t know anyone there unfortunately :(

By: Sinéad

Sinéad — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:04:38 +0000

@Justin - Thank you for the links. I really appreciate that. Do you by any chance know anyone at Irishblogs.ie? I did drop them an e-mail a few weeks ago without any reply, it was a request for numbers, of course.

@Catherine. Thank you :) I’m actually still in the process of changing things here and there (I’m doing that right now). But for the moment it’s looking ok. I will definitely pick your brain! Even if you haven’t been at it for long, you’re still valuable to me.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:22:33 +0000

Lovely new template Sinead.

Feel free to pick my brains, although I haven’t been at this with any sort of regularity for long!

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:05:41 +0000

feel free to drop me a line, I’ve been looking into that for a while on the Irish Blogs Top 100. Irishblogs.ie and http://planet.journals.ie/ are very good sources — many people who consider themselves to be “Irish bloggers”, whatever than means, have set up to include themselves in those aggregators. planet.journals.ie has an OPML listing here: http://planet.journals.ie/list/

By: Sinéad

Sinéad — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:31:44 +0000

That’s a very valid observation that I too have noticed, hence why part of my research will also involve attempting to make an accurate count of irish (and in ireland) bloggers. I haven’t quite figured out how to do this (I’m working on it) and it won’t be a component of the actual survey, though getting a more accurate number will be helpful in discussing irish blogging behaviour (which I think might possible differ from the norm - hence the non-connectedness).

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:11:32 +0000

This looks very interesting!

One thing that I’ve noticed with http://taint.org/technorati/ is that there are a group of blogging expats living in Ireland who are almost entirely unconnected to the “Irish blogger” scene. I’m sure there are others.

IMO, Ireland isn’t really that well-connected throughout — it’s just that there’s a large group who *are* well-interconnected with each other, and a smaller group less so.

By: Sinéad

Sinéad — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:16:07 +0000

@ David - Thanks for the suggestion, I would be more than happy to e-mail a copy of the draft if anyone was interested. Just drop me an e-mail if you are, and that goes for anyone else. I’d be happy to take on board any suggestions.

@ Will - That’s actually a really fantastic idea and I’m so glad that you mentioned it to me. I think this would be a very valid question to ask bloggers.

@ Victoria - Thanks for your feedback and for the info/links, I’m sure these will be very helpful to me, especially during the literature review phase of my research.

By: Victoria

Victoria — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:01:19 +0000

There is a lot of research going on in my research group about trust online, in particular surrounding trust ontologies and managing social networks. Here is a list of our recent publications
http://kdeg.cs.tcd.ie/publications

You should be able to find them online with a bit of googling. There are also references to conferences such as iTrust which may be useful. It will be interesting to see how current research compares to the opinion of Irish bloggers, sounds like a very useful and applied thesis :)