Bitscape: March 5, 2006

Bitscape

Poll Results

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Alright, having left it open for over a week, I'm calling the results of the recent poll final.

After filtering out all the spam polluters, and counting only responses that came from people other than me, here's what we ended up with:

A total of 5 readers responded to the poll.
Of those 5, 2 wanted their responses to be kept confidential. The other 3 agreed to make them public.

Responses were quite varied, but on balance, it would appear that most of the readers who answered would like bitscape.org to remain around in one form or another. I guess this should be expected, because anyone who doesn't want the site to stick around probably isn't going to be spending time visiting it, much less answering polls. I suppose I knew this deep down when I created the poll, but I still wanted to find out what people wanted out of the site. Also, by providing a menu of "No" answers, I wanted to find out whether others are feeling some of the same doubts I've been having about the ongoing worthwhileness / viability of the web as a medium for communication.

A user who self-identified as Linknoid wrote, "Bitscape.org is the longest running weblog among people I know, don't give it up now."

The only person who checked "No" and nothing else came from a user who identified as scottgalvin.com. The only item he checked, interestingly enough, was the following choice: "No. The web is fun, but the global network as we know it might not be around forever. We need to begin adapting to the possibility of doing without. It's time to focus our energies on enhancing our skills and building meatspace communities, because we're going to need them in the coming times." I was a bit surprised that two other respondents (who also voted for several of the yes items) checked this option too. 3 votes, a majority opition. That also made it the most-selected checkbox.

More details:

2 users (Linknoid and Humblik, both of whom agreed to have their responses made public) want to read the intimate details of Bitscape's life.
The same 2 are also interested in Bitscape's insights about the world and the human struggle.
Linknoid and another anonymous reader are interested in links to things written by other lunatics.
Virtual community interaction. Again, 2 votes -- Linknoid and Humblik.
One person thinks I should turn it into a photo blog. (Though others also wrote in comments that they like the pictures.)
Linknoid and Humblik want links to stop being broken.

And the No votes...

Nobody thinks the site is a pointless waste of bandwidth.
2 readers (Linknoid, Humblik) think time could be better spent on other activities
Humblik believes so-called online community to be a ploy and a sinkhole.
3 readers (Linknoid, Humblik, scottgalvin.com) think the net might not be around forever, so it's time to start adapting to life without it.
Linknoid's browser tabs are full. Who needs more junk? (I'm of the same opinion, but my responses aren't being counted here.)

Beyond that, I'm not sure there's really any further stasticical analysis that needs to be performed. How much else can you really do with a poll that gets 5 votes? lol.

Next, I'll be writing a post about the future of this site, my life, and other random junk. Stay tuned just little longer... You'll know when the time comes to disconnect from the signal.

previously...

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