[Air-l] Website/weblog word counts

[Aristides Emmanuel Pereira]

Helo David,

I am not sure but I think most actual qualitative research tools do not 
support the HTML format yet. A solution would be copying and pasting the 
files you want to an simple TXT or RTF file and then word counting them with 
specific software.

I also research Blogs and recently I have been using TAMS Analyzer for Mac 
to do my analysis and I have been following the same process cited above. In 
my research I do not count words (specially because I work with Japanese and 
counting words and kanjis - ideograms - is not a very precise method) but I 
do count the frequency of posts, the presence of comments and the use of 
other media formats like photos, video and audio. Within this setting I can 
affirm the number of posts in many cases goes steadily or tends to increase 
over time - one of the observed blogs has the average of over five hundred 
posts a month!!

Wish you luck in your study.

My regards,

Aristides Emmanuel Pereira, M.A. Int. Cultural Studies
PhD Candidate
Department of Multi-Cultural Societies
Graduate School of International Cultural Studies
Tohoku University
Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi
980-8576 JAPAN
www.bleepsblops.com
Tel. +81-90-6255-2095
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>From: David Brake <d.r.brake at lse.ac.uk>
>Reply-To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
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>Subject: [Air-l] Website/weblog word counts
>Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 12:32:40 +0100
>
>It just occurred to me one rough way of indicating the degree of
>engagement required to produce a given weblog is to point out the
>number of words you might find on one. I have a couple archived as
>HTML - is there an easy way to count how many words there are in a
>folder full of HTML pages? Has anyone done a study of the number of
>words on a typical weblog? Or in a typical weblog posting? Or of
>differing patterns of increasing or decreasing postings over time in
>a given body of weblogs?
>
>FYI Apparently the average weblog comment is 63 words long according to
>G. Mishne and N. Glance (2006) Leave a Reply: An Analysis of Weblog
>Comments in WWW2006 http://staff.science.uva.nl/~gilad/pubs/www2006-
>blogcomments.pdf
>
>I just did a couple of manual word counts and one of my interviewees'
>weblogs varied between c 600 words one month to peak at over 11,000
>words in each of two different months.
>---
>David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London
>School of Economics & Political Science
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