Hello all. I’m gath­er­ing mate­r­ial for research on the B2I pro­posal, and wanted to ask the read­ers some ques­tions. Feel free to answer in the com­ments or email me. I’ll also be con­tact­ing some of you directly to inter­view you (if that’s OK.)
Ques­tions

1. What was the pri­mary fac­tor that attracted you to B2I?

2. What was the pri­mary fac­tor that kept you com­ing back?
3. How impor­tant was the “com­mu­nity” aspect of the site to you? Did you take part in the debates and com­ment sections?
4. If you donated, what was the fac­tor that led you to do so?
5. How would you describe your polit­i­cal leanings?
6. Did you sup­port the war?
7. Do you think B2I brought you sto­ries and infor­ma­tion that the main­stream media didn’t? If so, why do you think that’s the case?
8. Are blogs — and specif­i­cally reader-funded blogs — a viable and new form of jour­nal­ism? How will­ing are you to sup­port other inde­pen­dent sites such as B2I?
9. What would be the decid­ing factor(s) in sup­port­ing other sites?

Thanks very much every­one! Like I said, I’ll be con­tact­ing some of you to follow-up with more ques­tions, unless you don’t wish to be con­tacted. If you don’t, please tell me in your email and/or com­ment. Thanks very much for all of y’all’s help.
Note:
Some who have writ­ten in have expressed con­cern about your email address being shared or dis­trib­uted. This will _never_ hap­pen. I will never give out your emails to any­one for any rea­son — period. I can’t empha­size this enough. The only mail­ings you’ll get from me are those you signed up for. (Unless you’re an old friend of mine and then I’ll bom­bard you; friend­ship often car­ries a bur­den.) Yes, I have your emails in a data­base, but the Move­able­Type soft­ware needs that for the noti­fi­ca­tion emails. If you wish to be taken out of the data­base, please feel free to email me and — with a heavy heart and teary eyes — I’ll remove you.
If you post in the com­ments and you give a valid email address, how­ever, there’s noth­ing to pre­vent some­one con­tact­ing you based on the infor­ma­tion you have pro­vided in a pub­lic com­ment sec­tion, so keep that in mind.
Again, thanks for everyone’s feedback.