2006 Reader Survey

As promised, today I'm putting out a survey to collect some of your feedback about the last six months of blogging. I decided to not go with a site like SurveyMonkey to let you be more freeform about your responses. Answer as many of the questions as you'd like. Everything is optional. I expect most people will complete this in 5-10 minutes. When you go to submit your survey, either use the email contact form or respond with a comment. I've turned on moderation for all comments on this post.

The survey runs through Saturday and I'll announce any changes that result next Monday. I'll continue reading any responses that come in after Saturday if you want to send them but they won't be a part of the announced results. It will be interesting to see how many people respond. The average article last month got accessed about 7000 times over RSS and another few thousand times over the Web. I may be doing a lot of reading this weekend or it may just turn out that you're all automated spam bots. I used to get a few dozen spam comments a day even with the site filtering turned on until I disabled comments on all posts older than 2 weeks.

1. Tell me something interesting about yourself. Maybe you just want to give your name, rank, and serial number or maybe you want to go into more detail. This will help me figure out who you are at conferences and events. If you have a blog, this is the right question to tell me where it is.
2. Tell me why you're interested in WCF. Or, tell me why you read this blog if you're not interested in WCF. Please don't include any confidential information. It's okay to say that you're working on secret projects at an undisclosed company so you can't give any details.
3. The current format is a new post every official Microsoft business day, with the average post being 300 to 500 words in length. Do you like this format? Do you want to see longer posts that come out less frequently? This is the question to talk about the posting schedule.
4. Do you like the visual style? I don't have total control over the layout of the sidebar or articles but I did pick the color scheme, fonts, and some of the arrangement. Actually, you can see exactly what I've customized by looking at the CSS file. Have you seen something nice on another blog that I should steal?
5. Name one topic that you'd love to see less often.
6. Name one topic that you'd love to see more often.
7. Name one blog I should be reading. If you told me about your blog in the first question, you don't have to list it again here. I covered some of the blogs I read in My Blogging Dirty Dozen post.
8. Tell me about the other sources of information you use to learn about WCF. Blogs, forums, web sites, door-to-door salesmen, anything at all. In particular, tell me if you read our community site or forums.