WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5

I Blog, Therefore I Am.

ROCK THE HOUSE!!!! JOY TO THE WORLD!!!! Wil, you are da' bomb, as we used to say back in the day. WHOO HOO!!!!!!

A great book on the topic: We've Got Blog: How Weblogs are Changing Our Culture, ed. Rebecca Blood. I personally hope weblogs are no fad trend on the Net, that we never go away...

Done and done! In the mean time...

Make "Jane" come to blockbuster quicker.

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Sure why not. This can be my good deed for the day.

It's great of you to post this link for this woman! I'm looking forward to reading the book. You might want to tell her to add a spot for people to enter their blog URL, since it would be interesting to see how the responses match up to what is actually *on* the blog!

Another survey...if Wil says so.

Done diddly done

That was so much more rewarding than the last couple quizzes I took... why do I keep taking those quizzes anyway?

Well, now that my good deed for the day is done, I guess there's nothing left but to kill a few kittens.

Thanks, Unka Willy!

~j

Cool.

And Wil, I did not know you did one of the voices in the Rats of NIHM.

You are cool :)

Pup, You ROCK! Keep Up the Good Work!
Wil, You ROCK! Thanks for posting this for my friend!
Everyone Else, You also ROCK! Thanks for helping a friend out!

It's cool to see everyone getting together for a fellow weblogger!!!

This person thinks that there is a derth of academic work in and on blogging?

This person clearly needs to get this person's tushie to the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association meetings and periodicals.

Blogging is not ignored by academics!

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Whoops. Considering she's in my own grad program, perhaps I should have been more kind....

Done.

Interesting topic for a thesis, I would be interested in the outcome. :)

That thesis topic is so 2002. :)

http://minerva.simons-rock.edu/~pprimate/writing/thesis/index.html

Good deed for the day...check.

i came
i saw
i filled in the questionaire.

:)

cheers wil

tyson

I OBEY.

I myself am fascinated by the social and cultural aspects of the internet, and I am an avid blogger. One of the best books on the subject of internet culture has got to be David Weinberger's "Small Pieces Loosely Joined." Don't miss it.

I actually recently bought both of those books (mentioned in the italics). They are pretty interesting read.

I've had my blog up 3 days and I'm already filling in surveys about it... sheesh.
What country is it from? Some of the questions are wierd... but I love statistcs, so I filled it out.

I own this blogging book:

"Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content" published by New Riders Publishing.
http://www.newriders.com/

Same company that publishes Jakob Nielsen, Jeffrey Veen, etc.

I am a loyal follower and I followed thou instruction to complete said survey.

I am a blogging fool!

No thanks.

Very cool thing for you to pimp, Wil. I'm going to trackback now.

-Jocelyn

As a fellow thesis warrior, I'm all but happy to help out!

As a leisure researcher (seriously, that's what I do...) I'm very interested to see the results!

Doing it now... Lalalala fun way to spend my wednesday night...

Questions answered, blog post created (with trackback).

One aside, you need to fix the html in your trackback popup, its all running together making it rather hard to read.

I'm not sure if you'll have access, you don't say how you heard about this in the first place, but I hope that you will post the results of the survey when they are available.

Lets see who can guess how many trackbacks are sent to this post. I'll set my sights at 30. Because web users are inherantlly lazy (I know I am most of the time) and most of us won't bother to post it up.

Thanks

I'm tired right now.

What I meant was, I'll answer it in a bit.

you are such an amazingly nice person!!!
I hope people help me when the time comes for me to do my thesis :)
and like someone said a few comments before: I obey... just because you are extremelly nice

It's awesome that you folks are helping out. Way to go :)

hallo everyone!

I too am doing an academic paper on blogs, but
I'm going to be examining them as public/personal media versus private/corporate media and the relationship between both spheres.

So anyone else doing academic stuff on blogs or personal/corporate media please email me! I'd love to brainstorm. I'd also love to hear ideas and suggestions for future investigations.

Also, Will - Would you care to comment on celebrity bloggers? They seem to inhabit a strange space between the personal/public and corporate.

Rock on everyone!

Katie
raynes.goldie@utoronto.ca

sorry minus the L in Will

Done & Done.

To my Live Journal @ www.livejournal.com/users/Iamubergeek!!!

Away!!!

Great idea Wil.

all your blog are belong to us!

I am happy now :) You were/are my first trackback ever...

damn. i should have just gone here! my final project for a history of pop culture class was on blogs. and no one would answer my damned questionnaire!

*shakes fist*

Well, hello there young man! No, you don't know this old lady, I only met you once at a con in Philly many years ago. Came across your page here by accident while searching "f**k bush" of all things. ;-) Don't know how your page came up in that list of search results.

To comment on the French Fries "non-issue"; I wonder how foreign-born people feel about current sentiments expressed in congress. And, I wonder, will people be boycotting French restaurants next? And, please tell me, whatever are we going to do with that "Big French Broad" in New York?
Send her back?

I'll tell you youngsters something; I do a lot of foreign travel, or used to, I've stopped for a while. But when I was out and about, I would not admit to being an American, it was just too embarrassing. "Nope, I'm Canadian." I'd say. If only to avoid being mugged or spit upon.

As for blogging, I don't know much about them, except that I'm glad to see all these young people doing it. I don't know if I'd appreciate anyone reading my personal journal, thou (that is, at least not until I'm dead and gone and don't have to face all the people I've insulted).

My lovely niece, (who can't be leaving for the Univ of Alaska too soon), has insisted on making one for me, which I have not started yet. I'm still too used to writing in a regular journal. (When and if I get started on it, you're welcome to view it. I'll give the addy to you privately if you're that curious. I'm told I have had, and still experience, an interesting and weird life. I hope it continues.) :-)

And, hey, (This is called a "plug" kiddies), try checking out MY book. Well, okay, I'm just the co-author, but it counts. I wrote 16 chapters. The book is called "The Tombstone Tourist", by Scott Stanton. And I AM credited! Gots me photo in the back'in ever'thin.

I feel so special.

Anyway, Will, glad to see you're doing well. Saw you in some "giant snake" movie a while back, one of those nights where I picked up a bunch of videos that looked "so stupid they must be funny". You did a good job, hope you're going to be doing more film work.

Take care, kiddo. Nice to see you keeping busy.

Peace, Love, Save the Whales. [Potentially site-deleting comment removed]
:-)

Okay. Why not? I have nothing better to do.

"Survey says!"

There ya go survey person, whoever you are. :}

Hmm...why do I blog?

Well, it's simple. I figure I can keep trying to say something that Wil would find interesting and then he would email me about my blocg and I'd email back and then he and I would become pretty good personal friends then I could tell all my freinds that I have a Celebrity friend...

Oh. Wait, no that's not it. Sorry Wil. You have enough friends already I'm sure!

hehehe >=}

Seriously though, I've never really known until I took that survey why I blog. That's pretty cool. Learn something new about myself everyday...

Wil,
I am glad that enough of the other readers felt like doing this survey. I just do not have the energy tonight. I have eaten enough, to know that I can sit out of this one.

FG

It's odd when I think about what compels me to blog so much.? I guess maybe I feel like I have all of this untapped, creative energy and it's one way of working it out of me.

Plus, it is a fun way to keep in contact with friends you don't see everyday.

Thing is the blogging thing is so popular that I'm just one tiny blog in a sea of 1,000's of blogs on the internet.

I don't have a blog but I wanted to commend Wil for his absolutely awesome self.
Thank you Wil.

I have done as you have asked. For you're part you must continue to maintain a high quality blog. Carry on...

Questions answered...
Blog entry created...
Trackback completed...

We live to serve...
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... well, kinda

first time posting

Sorry..only have..barely..time for yours!!!

Why some people say 'no to war' and then they say [potentially site-deleting comment removed]? I mean, after all he is a human being, and if we are against war, we should be against all kinds of war, the personal, intimate ones where only a few people die and the massive ones where genocides are commited. If someone wants to be a pacifist, the best thing would be for that person to be a pacifist all the way. (I am sorry this doesn't have to deal with the blogger issue but Mrs. Sandra comment did 'click' on my brain)

xoxo

The survey's author has told me that the survey will be up until March 15 but may be extended if needed. Please help out as early as possible.

Come on Wil, we blogged about this last week. Didn't you get the office memo? ;)

1. Survey taken
2. Blogged about it
3. Trackbacked
4. Started to wonder who this thesis person was
5. Asked Google, but she didn't know either... Unless she's majoring in Biochemistry, that is.
6. Giving up on the matter as it's becoming too close to unlaziness :-)

I hope that some of those extremely intemperate remarks above get edited out quickly, before the whole site gets shut down.

I just got my weblog up last night w00t!

and yep, wil, you're pretty cool!

as far as trackbacking goes, it's no longer a matter of laziness if you have MT and turn on auto-trackback. All you have to do now is link to the post! I love MT! Good job on getting the word out on this Wil!

Hi everybody; please excuse me if I make newbie mistakes. I didn't know blogs existed before they were the subject of a TechRepublic article on March 10th.

I realize this is off topic, but what makes a web log different from other web pages? I've viewed a dozen in the last four days and I'm trying to figure out what defines this genre. I'm interested in any business communications applications for web logs within a corporate network. I'm also trying to figure out how web log pages differ from Weather.com or what I create periodically for my company intranet with Dreamweaver.

Please, send me an e-mail with "Blog" in the subject and define a web log. Differentiate between a web log and other types of personal web site. If possible, cite corporate uses. Use back of page if necessary. You may now open your blue books.

Thanks. Again, if I've committed any newbie mistakes or offended anyone, I deeply apolgize. Mr. Wheaton, if you blow this all away, I'll understand completely.

Charlie Spencer
LAN Specialist II

caspencer@switch.com

Union Switch & Signal Inc.
645 Russell Street
Batesburg, SC 29006

Hee hee ... what robot are you?
Having my own blog and being a bit obsessed with reading other people's blogs, I just want to say how thankful I am that you do not use your blog to post the polls and surveys you may take ... yeeuck! Hate that.
My blog is a bit less interesting than yours though ... thus it not being so incredibly public. You are a brave man.

Took it.
I'd trackback, but I can't with the way I do my site.

I just started my blog this week and so of course there's not much of interest there yet. Hell I only just got a title for it yesterday. But I did take the survey even if some of my answers were more theoretical than anything. Thanks for telling us about it. You Rawk.

I filled out the survey.

i love you

nice

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