WP: Blog Creation, Readership Rise in 2004

[DeepModem Mom]

Blog Creation, Readership Rise in 2004

By Anick Jesdanun
The Associated Press
Monday, January 3, 2005; 7:13 AM


NEW YORK -- Readership of online journals known as blogs grew significantly in 2004, driven by increased awareness of them during the presidential campaign and other major news events, according to a study released Sunday.

Twenty-seven percent of online adults in the United States said in November they read blogs, compared with 17 percent in a February survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project....

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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....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43993-2005Jan3.html

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Seems the MSM is starting to notice us

It's about time.

Can't wait to see the many ways they will try to discredit us.

[nine23]

5. The attempts to "discredit" are all over the place....

Blogs, and the internet in general, is mainstream media's biggest threat in decades.

[Atman]

2. Repeat...

I posted this as my New Years cartoon...

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Excellent!

[tanyev]

4. MSM starting to recognize

their obsolescence. Instead of reporting the news, they are now reporting on bloggers reporting the news.

[Demeter]

6. Question: Is DU A Blog?

I cosider it a combination of group therapy and local coffee shop/clearing house for information.