Analyzing your responses on Blogging Network?
From HP to Microsoft, researches are looking at the people behind the computers i.e. the people using the computers since, as one researches puts it "People like computers because there are people in them." According to this San Francisco Chronicle story researches are looking at patterns and decisions made by those using email for instance or newsgroups, maybe even Blogging Network?
They do this without reading any of the words in the messages. It's all based on the pattern of activity. People who post multiple replies on every discussion thread tend to be the arguers, the nitpickers. Those who post just one reply -- especially if that reply ends the thread -- tend to be the expert problem solvers.
...Patterns of online interactivity -- from how many posts you make on a discussion group to how long you take to answer an e-mail -- say a lot about the people typing the messages, researchers are finding.