Welcome to Blogger Code 2.0! The Original Blogger Code was created by Ron Yeany in 2002 and was a huge success. I wrote one of the original decoders and the thing just stuck with me. So I figured that since the domain was open might as well resurrect it with some updates and enhancements. Version 2, while being slightly updated has the enhancement of a built in badging system and a link directly to the decoder. Enjoy!

Kudos go out to Sean Bonner, Jonas Luster, Jason Schupp, and Tantek Çelik for their help putting this thing out. Oh yeah, my name is Jason DeFillippo. Nice to meet ya. And don't forget to go to Metroblogging cause I just gotta pimp it.

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BLOGGING DURATION

How long have you had an online journal or blog? Don't blog? Then hit the road buddy. Bloggers only.

DOMAINS

All websites require an internet domain. Where does your domain kung-fu land on the scale?

I own more than 2 domains that are updated regularly.

I own 2 or more domains that are updated regularly.

I own 2 or more domains, but only one is updated regularly.

I own 1 domain and keep my blog and any other content I produce on the same site.

I don't own a domain, but I have my own web address at blogspot, typepad, blogware, diaryland, livejournal, or other hosted site.

What's a domain?

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

The web is built on the backs of the geeks who run it. Are you one of the technical elite?

I maintain and manage my blog with my own home-grown content management system.

I manage my blog with a management system running on my own web host.

I use a remotely hosted service to update a site on my own web host.

I use Blogger, BigBlogTool, or similar service to update a blogspot, Geocities, or other hosted site; or I use diaryland, livejournal, or another service with built-in updating and content management.

I'll consider myself lucky if I don't get an error while filling out this form.

LINKSLUTTING

Page ranking has made it a spammers wet dream and a Technorati Cosmos watcher's best friend.

I have so many links I couldn't possibly read them all on a regular basis and/or I nearly always add a link to a site that has linked to mine.

I have quite a few links, and I try to check in on them all regularly, or at least periodically.

I link only to sites I like to read (and sites that I have time to read) on a regular basis.

I don't have many links on my site and/or my links are primarily non-blog related.

I don't have any links. Why would I want people to leave my site?

STATS

Are you the Nielsen Family of the blog world? Do you reload your counters so much 99% of your visits are yourself?

I check my stats at least once a day, keep my results in a spreadsheet, and/or can tell you my average daily and monthly visitors without having to look it up.

I usually check my stats once a day but I don't keep any records or running tallies.

I check my stats occasionally, mostly to discover new blogs that are linking to mine.

I've looked at my stats reports, but I can't remember the last time I checked them.

What? You mean someone keeps track of how many people visit my site?

POSTING FREQUENCY

How many times a day do you post?

I update several times a day, every day, and if I don't update, my readers can I assume I'm dead.

I update at least once a day. I can't remember the last day I haven't blogged.

I try to blog once a day, but it doesn't always happen, and that's no big deal.

I'm lucky if I manage to post 2 or 3 new entries a week.

Until I started taking this survey, I forgot I had a blog.

IMMEDIACY

Are you usually one of the first to link to the new thing that everyone will be writing about? Are you capable of blogging from just about anywhere at anytime?

When I plan something I know will be blog-worthy, I have my laptop or PDA with me so I can blog wirelessly as it's happening.

I sometimes carry a laptop or PDA with me, or I'll find an internet cafe, and I blog soon after I get an idea.

I blog from either home or work, but only after my work is done and when I get some free time.

The blog isn't the first thing I think of, but I usually remember to blog the interesting things... eventually.

I've forgotten to blog something in the past because I forgot about it or never got around to it.

ORIGINALITY

Does your blog or journal concentrate on your personal experiences? Do you scour the web for new and interesting links? Are you happy just adding your comments to the dialogue?

Nearly all the topics I blog are personal experiences or original writing that can't be found elsewhere on the web.

I blog some original material with the occasional web link with accompanying personal commentary about the link.

My entries are a mix of some original material, some web links, and links and comments about other blogs.

I blog mostly links to other web articles and other blogs.

Are you telling me there are sites other than blogs on the web?

SEX

Ah, yes ... what would a survey be without a sex question? As shocking as it may seem, some bloggers have been known to exchange bodily fluids with one another. What category do you belong to?

I'm having a blogger's baby or a blogger is having my baby.

I've slept with 3 or more other bloggers.

I've slept with 2 or more other bloggers (not including significant others), and there are quite a few more I would shag if given the chance.

I've dated and/or slept with another blogger and/or met my significant other through blogging.

I haven't bedded another blogger yet, but I certainly wouldn't rule it out if the opportunity presented itself.

I might flirt a little, but anything beyond that is out of the question.

Are you kidding? The last thing I need is to get sexually involved with one of these neurotic pinheads.

EXHIBITIONISM

With the proliferation of digital cameras, you no longer need be concerned about the clerk at the photo lab seeing your naughty bits. But hell, you'll put on them on your blog. Right?

I have posted photos of myself having sex on my blog.

I have posted photos of myself masturbating on my blog.

I have posted several photos of myself on my blog. Some of them may have included full or partial nudity.

I have posted quite a few photos of myself, but I was fully clothed in them all.

I have posted at least a photo of my face.

I haven't posted, and don't plan on posting, any photos of myself.

I've posted a photo of someone else who is more attractive than me and passed it off as my own photo.

LEMMING

Do you feel left out if you don't participate in the latest meme or web survey to make the rounds? How compelled are you to follow the pack and do what everyone else is doing?

I rarely find a meme or web survey I don't enjoy, and I find myself blogging the results to most of them.

I usually check out most of the surveys I run across, but I only blog the results if I find them interesting or favorable.

I've taken a few surveys or participated in a few memes, but there seem to be so many of them I have to pick and choose.

Memes and web surveys are, for the most part, pretty stupid. Like this survey.

Uh, what's a meme?

CLOSET

Can anyone type your name into Google and find your blog? Would you just die (or be fired) if your boss read your blog? Does you mom leave comments on your site?

Nobody I know offline knows about my blog, and I plan on keeping that way; and/or I blog anonymously.

Only a few people I know outside of blog circles knows about my blog.

Friends know about my blog, but I generally don't talk about it with some groups (ie: family and/or co-workers) because they probably wouldn't get the whole blogging concept.

There are a few select people I've specifically kept in the dark about my blogging but, for the most part, most people know about it or could easily find it via a web search.

Nearly all of my offline friends, family members, and co-workers know about my blog, and that's fine.

SYNDICATION

The syndication wars have been raging since the dawn of the blog. Have you taken a side? Are you Switzerland? Do you even care in the slightest?

TROLLS

The Internet, much like real life, has it's share of pond-scum. Have you been terrorized by these reptilian life forms?

Trolls shut down my blog.

I've been terrorized but survived.

They have been a mild annoyance.

I've never seen them

I am one!

SURVEY WHORING

Online surveys are all the rage in the blogosphere. You can't blogsurf for more than a few sites without running into them. Where are you in the survey whore spectrum?

I am 100% whore

I am 75% whore

I am 50% whore

I am 25% whore

I am 0% whore

Who you callin a whore?

SPAM

Comment spam is bringing a lot of bloggers to the brink of homocide. How do you handle this attack on humanity from Satan himself?

I purchased a shotgun for the day I find the bastards.

I don't allow comments.

I moderate all my comments.

I have a spam filter.

I allow all comments.

I don't get comment spam.

I am a comment spammer.

Who are you?

I am not a Blogger, I keep a Journal.

I am a Blogger, fear my wrath!

I am a Citizen Journalist, I am better than those who actually studied for their jobs.

I am a Poet. Don't ya' know it.

I am pissed off that someone wants to classify me.

NOTORIETY

A couple years ago we may have called this "microcelebrity," but simply put, it's being known amongst other bloggers for one reason or another: You wrote an amazing essay or post, you created a meme, you said something (or continually say things) to piss off the right people, you pulled off a grand prank, you started a cult of personality, you were nobody until you somehow ended up in a Wired/New York Times/CNN/etc. news story... Whatever it was, you somehow became a known entity. Or maybe you aren't and you like it that way.

I am subject to much adolation or are widely despised.

I'm well adored/hated within a certain subsection of bloggers, known amongst a broader subset, or I'm "that blogger" from a couple years back.

I was in a print article once, or maybe I've just been around enough that enough people say, "Oh yeah, I know who you are."

Most bloggers haven't heard of me, but I get some incoming links.

Even I haven't heard of my blog.

HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE

Different than the length of time you've been weblogging, History is a measure of how much you remember or were keeping track of all the personalities, in-jokes, accomplishments and naysayers. How old school are you?

I know what a Subhonker is, and wonder what happened to (and who was) Sally Tenpenny. I even got drunk with Gnome-Girl.

I get the references made when I read someone's archives from 2001, know who came up with "weblog" and who later shortened it to "blog," or I can name winners of the Bloggies in years past and can talk about some of the scandal surrounding them in years past.

I know that my favorite sites have been around for a while, and can name at least a few different names of blogging software.

Isn't just being on Livejournal old school?

I think a metafilter is some sort of tag used by search engines to index my site.

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