Monday, January 03, 2005
Blog Creation, Readership Rise in 2004
Yahoo! News has a great article on the new blog phenomenon. They attribute the recent success and attention of blogs to the past election and the tsunami disaster. However, for those of you who have been blogging for a long time while readership has increased, the number of American's who actually maintain a blog only increased a little. The article said,
"Though blog readership jumped, the percentage of online Americans who write blogs grew only slightly - to 7 percent in November, up from 5 percent early in the year. Blog creators tend to be male, affluent, well-educated and young; 70 percent of them have high-speed connections at home, and 82 percent have been online at least six years.
Despite the attention to blogging, a large number of Americans remain clueless - only 38 percent of Internet users know what a blog is: online agglomerations of ideas, information and links, usually presented with the most recent postings on top, and often offering a mechanism for visitors to post comments."
So for those of you like me who constantly check and re-check blog visitor stats, the outlook looks good.
"Though blog readership jumped, the percentage of online Americans who write blogs grew only slightly - to 7 percent in November, up from 5 percent early in the year. Blog creators tend to be male, affluent, well-educated and young; 70 percent of them have high-speed connections at home, and 82 percent have been online at least six years.
Despite the attention to blogging, a large number of Americans remain clueless - only 38 percent of Internet users know what a blog is: online agglomerations of ideas, information and links, usually presented with the most recent postings on top, and often offering a mechanism for visitors to post comments."
So for those of you like me who constantly check and re-check blog visitor stats, the outlook looks good.
