The Pew Internet & American Life Project is a wealth of information for anyone interested in data about online phenomena.
Close to 27% of internet users report reading blogs, while close to 7% report creating blogs, 5% report actually using RSS and XML readers/aggregators, and 12% report posting comments on blogs according to this section of the Pew reports.
The Pew data reports that there has been a 58% growth of Blog readers in the year 2004. In 2003, their surveys showed that only 11% of internet users read blogs.
[via Dan Gillmor's new blog "Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism"]
The Pew Internet & American Life Project is a wealth of information for anyone interested in data about online phenomena.
Close to 27% of internet users report reading blogs, while close to 7% report creating blogs, 5% report actually using RSS and XML readers/aggregators, and 12% report posting comments on blogs according to this section [...]
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