[Air-l] personal homepages

[Rowin A Cross]

> 
> and the remaining 22 are inconclusive about who actually is 
> blogging, but 
> according to content, probably break down like this:
> 
By content, do you mean subject matter rather than linguistic factors -
as discussed briefly at
http://www.nature.com/nsu/nsu_pf/030714/030714-13.html?  It would be
interesting to compare 'apparent' gender as implied by content with
linguistic gender (for want of a better expression), given the
discussions earlier on this list about hiding or creating identities
online. 

> 8 by men
> 1 by a woman
> 6 by a collective (almost exclusively men)
> 1 by a common variety garden gnome (a "kabouter"), probably a 
> female one 1 is a fake weblog redirecting to a pr0n site 3 
> are really hard to classify and 1 appears to actually be 
> written by a dog, giving a whole new meaning to 
> that New Yorker cartoon, 'On the internet nobody knows your a dog.'

Lol!

Rowin Cross
Research Fellow,
University of Strathclyde