The final tally of the survey last week
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Last week I posted a mini
blog survey based on an Internet
one I came across. Thanks for all the input and answers via comments
and email. Here are the stats from the results. This was not
a huge sampling as Radicati would normally have you believe. This
was small and from many geeks.
1.
So as for our survey, how many accounts do you maintain?
The lowest was 2 with the highest 10. The
mean was 5 different accounts.
2.
How much time do you think you spend reading?
The lowest was one hour amazingly. The
highest was 3 hours. The mean was 1.8 hours per day.
3.
Do you check when getting out of bed?
I laughed at this one since some said in
bed, out of bed, and one jokingly said even while sleeping. I did
like the Blackberry answer since that person has it set to come on at 7am.
Amazingly every single person said yes but me. I try to wait
until I get to the office unless I am on the road.
4.
How many times a day do you check ALL the mailfiles? Not just
automated checks of some like we can in Domino
This one was tough to give a mean since
more than 4 people put that they check it non-stop during the day. So
let's go with knowing one person did say they checked one of their 5 average
accounts only once per day.
5.
Can you go an entire vacation without checking?
Need I say more than 94% of you do check
during vacation? I was one of the few that refuse to do so.
Additional questions
1. Does RSS
save you any time on checking email now?
A full 100% say that RSS saves no time
in email and actually adds more things to check, even though it gets a
little more streamlined by the answers below.
2.
How many times a day do you check the blogs?
Blogs get checked an almost perfect 5 times
per day average.
3.
Do you read the blogs while you are on vacation?
This was almost a 50/50 spit. It
was nice to see that although most everyone checks email, you can at least
give the blog checking a break.
4.
How many blogs do you maintain (yes some of you have work and personal
ones) ?
The mean on this was 1.3. This says
a couple of you split your personal and business life. But by reading
the above stats it all makes sense as you claim there is no vacation or
personal life since you check email all day and read blogs half the time.
I am going to go out on a limb and say
this was slightly skewed since everyone that reads my blog is a geek in
the first place and being connected is just our way. I would suggest
doing what I do once a year for the past 9 years or so now. I have
one week per year. One week, where I do not check email, voicemail,
carrier pigeon or anything else. I actually pay all my bills online
in advance and don't touch the computer that week. Hard to do? It
was at first. But now I crave that week by the time it gets within
one month of it coming. Try it, you can do it.
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On Monday, June 6th, 2005 by Chris Miller
