who else does this, anyway?

I would like to take the opportunity to thank all the people who read this blog because well, there are a WHOLE lot of them out there (blogs, I mean). Last week, I received in my Inbox these interesting facts about the blogging world, and thought, since you read blogs, that you might find them fun, too.

* Thirty-nine percent of U.S. Internet users, or about 57 million Americans, read blogs; 8 percent, or about 12 million Americans, write a blog; and more than half of bloggers are under the age of 30.

* Pew found that 37 percent of bloggers cite "my life and experiences" as what they blog about, while only 11 percent cited public issues as typical topics. Sixty percent of bloggers are white, while 74 percent of the country's Web users are, according to the data. Fifty-five percent of bloggers write under a pseudonym.

* 54% of bloggers say that they have never published their writing or media creations anywhere else; 44% say they have published elsewhere.

* Women and men have statistical parity in the blogosphere, with women representing 46% of bloggers and men 54 percent.


* 76% of bloggers say a reason they blog is to document their personal experiences and share them with others. Sixty-four percent of bloggers say a reason they blog is to share practical knowledge or skills with others.

* Seventy-seven percent of bloggers have shared something online that they created themselves, such as their own artwork, photos, stories, or videos. By comparison, 26 percent of Internet users as a whole have done this."

(From a phone survey of 7.012 people conducted by Pew Internet & American Life Project, and posted at Mediapost.com.)