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1. Explain if you now have a blog or if you had one in the past and stopped writing it. If you had a blog and stopped writing it explain the reasons, if it is still online or if you took it offline. If you did the latter, do you have some kind of copy of what you published in it?

If you had a blog and stopped writing it, please answer this survey with the information of that blog.

2. Why did you start a blog?

3. How long ago did you start to write a blog? How old were you when you started writing it?

4. Do you write it by yourself or does it have several authors? How many?

5. Do you write your blog in more than one language (list them please)?

6. Is your blog anonymous or does it have your name?

7. How would you describe the subject of your blog? Is it about external facts or about your private life and thoughts?

8.Order the following elements in a list putting on first place what you publish the most. If you never publish one of them, exclude it from the list. text, photographs, drawings and graphic design, video, audio

9. How often do you publish in your blog?

10. What hosting service do you use (hotmail, blogger, yahoo spaces, blogsome, etc.)? Why did you choose that one?

11. Do you use only the computer to write your blog or do you also use paper, cell phone, PDA etc.?

12. Is your blog restricted or can anybody read it?

13. Why did you choose hto make your blog open or restricted?

14. Can comments be added to your blog? If so, do you control them someway or are all of them published?

15. If you ever allowed comments in your blog but later cancelled this option, explain the reasons.

16. Is there a list of links to other blogs in your own blog? How do you choose them? Do you read them? How often?

17. Is there a list of links to other web pages in your blog?

18. Is your blog in a distribution list?

19. Does your blog have a counter?

20. Do you make backups of what you publish in your blog? What kind?

21. Do you design your blog just with the tools of the hosting service or do you do it accessing to the source of the page?

22. When you blog, do you have in mind the people who are going to read the entry?

23. Have you ever interrupted the publishing of your blog? Why and for how long? If you have never stopped writing your blog, what encourages you to keep writing it?

24. How important is it for you that other people read your blog?

25. Do you re-read what you publish in your blog? How often?

26. Before you had a blog, did you write a diary or somekind of personal log on paper? Do you still write it and how often?

27. Before you had a blog, were you involved in the writing, design or maintenance of some other web page?

28. Nowadays, do you write something else besides your blog? What?

29. Is your blog important in your personal life? Why?

30. Optional: e-mail and your blog address.

Thank you for cooperating with this research. If you want to know the results, check this blog regularly.

This survey is based on the research projects of Philippe Lejeune and Manuel Alberca on personal diaries and autobiography.