>Background
>Results:General
>Results:Non-Bloggers
>Results:Bloggers

Background

Blogging is in many ways a hobby of the people. Hence, in order to find out more about it, we set out conducting a survey. We had the following targets in conducting it

- To find out more about the general opinion on blogging.

- To obtain statistics on the percentage of people who are bloggers.

- To discover more in general about blogging, and the opinion of the masses on it.

Hence, we designed the following survey form.

Surveys were split into adult and student categories for us to have a better idea of the real demographics.

Results: General

In general, we found that 60% of students (30 out of a total of 50) blogged, while adults mostly did not blog(0 out of 8 blogged). However, 88% people knew others who blogged. Despite that, only 60% of people interviewed read the aforementioned blogs.

19% of people in Singapore read popular blogs like Xiaxue, MrBrown, and Mr. Miyagi. However, Xiaxue seems to be the most heavily trafficked blog among Singaporeans.

Results: Non-Bloggers

Among Non-Bloggers, 76% did not blog as they did not have time or interest to do so, while 13% of people found it excessively personal. 3% of people interviewed did not blog as they were unsure how, and another 3% did not blog as they were afraid of any problems that blogging might bring them, if they were to make comments on matters. The remaining 5% did not blog for other reasons.

24% of non-bloggers disliked blogging in general, criticizing it as excessively personal and in some cases a complete waste of time.

32% of people knew of the restriction on sedition in blogging, which was publicised widely in Singapore, while 11% knew that it was an offense in Singapore to post pornographic materials on a web site of any form in Singapore. the remaining 57% knew that there was no restriction on the act of Blogging itself in Singapore. (Note: There is no explicit regulation on Blogging in Singapore)

Results: Bloggers

45% of bloggers in Singapore started to blog "for fun" or for "interest" . The remaining 55% did not have a real reason to start blogging.

55% started blogging in the past 1-3 years, 15% since 4 years ago, and 30% for less than a year.

55% of bloggers blogged on life in general, while 10% blogged specifically about school, the remaining 35% blogged generally about "anything that comes to mind"

30% of bloggers update their blogs daily,20% weekly,15% bi-weekly, 10% monthly and 25% irregularly.

40% of bloggers used Blogger, 15% MSN Spaces, and 1 blogger actually wrote a proprietary software. 40% of people were unsure what platform they blogged on.

5% of bloggers used MySQL on their blogs, 5% PHP, 10% Javascript and the other 80% did not know, as they did not hand-code their blogs.

45% of bloggers felt that their blogs were highly intimate, 25% moderately intimate, and 30% minimally intimate.

20% of bloggers knew that there were restrictions on seditious posts in Blogs, 5 % knew of laws against posting pornographic materials on any web site in general in the Singaporean context, while 5% knew about the computer misuse act. The remaining 70% felt that there was no explicit regulation on Blogging. (Note: There is no explicit regulation on Blogging in Singapore)