{"id":507,"date":"2005-10-18T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=507"},"modified":"2005-10-18T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-18T05:01:00","slug":"the-great-canadian-blog-survey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"The Great Canadian Blog Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 1,000 responses &#8211; you can find the results <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianeconomist.com\/2005\/10\/14\/the-great-canadian-blog-survey\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously any self-selecting survey has limited scientific value, but it still makes for a highly fascinating read.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no surprise to see that that both bloggers and blog readers tend to be overwhelingly Conservative whereas us Liberals are very under represented (despite Steve MacKinnon&#8217;s pleas to change this). So the big question is: why?<\/p>\n<p>I tend to think that many people blog to share an opinion that goes against the mainstream view. With one or two notable exceptions, there aren&#8217;t a lot of people who blog simply to say &#8220;gosh, I really like what the PM is doing.&#8221; This could also explain why there are a lot of Liberal bloggers who aren&#8217;t big fans of Paul Martin, and quite a few left wing blogs in Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;d be curious to hear other theories too &#8211; be they serious or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 1,000 responses &#8211; you can find the results here. Obviously any self-selecting survey has limited scientific value, but it still makes for a highly fascinating read. It&#8217;s no surprise to see that that both bloggers and blog readers tend to be overwhelingly Conservative whereas us Liberals are very under represented (despite Steve MacKinnon&#8217;s pleas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}