<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266835.post-1377909733767989282</id><published>2007-10-26T11:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-11-01T10:44:09.814-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='web2'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kinzin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='web2.0'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='me'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='community'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='socialnetworking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Research'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='participation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='facebook'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='media'/><title type='text'>Is the world normal?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.robkruyt.com/" title="Photo by Rob Kruyt" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://www.fergusson.net/uploaded_images/071022-Normal-02---small-796819.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Last week, 24Hrs Newspaper &lt;a href="http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/2007/10/23/4597869-sun.html"&gt;published a story&lt;/a&gt;  about Kinzin's Facebook plugin &lt;a href="http://apps.facebook.com/areyounormal"&gt;Are You Normal?&lt;/a&gt; in their print and online magazine (see the great photo on the left, by &lt;a href="http://www.robkruyt.com/" title="Photo by Rob Kruyt" target="_new"&gt;Rob Kruyt&lt;/a&gt;, that accompanied the article). In the article, I'm quoted as saying that we've reached 90,000 people around the world. Thanks to the power of the network effect, as of this writing we've already passed 220,000 (from 184 countries!) and still going strong.&lt;/p&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;The point of this post is not to toot my own horn (at least, not &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;only&lt;/span&gt; to do that :-), but to mention for your interest that the next set of survey questions we publish will be written in part by our user base. We've had questions submitted from Finland, Spain, Greece, Australia, and the UK so far. I'm very excited about this in particular. As with many things, when we're talking about what's "normal", what we choose to measure is often as interesting as the results. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I'll keep you posted as things progress...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3266835-1377909733767989282?l=homeiswhereyouwearyourat.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3266835/1377909733767989282/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3266835&amp;postID=1377909733767989282&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3266835/posts/default/1377909733767989282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3266835/posts/default/1377909733767989282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.fergusson.net/2007/10/is-world-normal.html' title='Is the world normal?'/><author><name>Fergusson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13187356190509785445</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05714825097452276379'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry>