To Blog is to Live happily (ever after?) - allegedly

Monday, March 3. 2008

To Blog is to Live happily (ever after?) - allegedly

From ABC news (tip of hat to TechCrunch) comes the news of the health benefits of blogging:

The research, from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, found after two months of regular blogging, people felt they had better social support and friendship networks than those who did not blog.

Bloggers reported a greater sense of belonging to a group of like-minded people and feeling more confident they could rely on others for help.

In 2 surveys, all respondents, whether or not they blogged, reported feeling less anxious, depressed and stressed after two months of online social networking.

I recall Kathy Sierra also claiming that blogging improves Sex Lives and Wealth (well, according to Scoble anyway.....).

The opportunities for commercialisation are clearly lying dormant - one wonders when the first "Blog For Your Health" type New Age courses will start - in California, naturally - and will we see special Blogging Gear, and Yoga for Blogger strain etc etc ?

Posted by Alan Patrick in Blogging & Blogs at 23:35 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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I can buy this.

Blogging has made me my first new friends in a long time and got me the first interesting job I've had for a long time, too.

Unless the ability to filter splogs or vigilance on comments policy increases this effect may not last. I used to follow commentor/trackbacks all the time to find interesting new blogs. Now, 9/10, they turn out to be splogs.

#1 Ian Delaney (Homepage) on 2008-03-04 00:13 (Reply)

Ian, lets set up a blog cult then - you do the lectures and chanting, I get the Rolls Royce

#2 alan p on 2008-03-05 00:41 (Reply)

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