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According to Pew/Internet report on Technology and Media Use, blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture. Here are some latest contours for the popularity of blogsphare:
- More than 8 million of the U.S. adults who use internet, said they have created a blog or web-based diary;
- by the end of 2004, there were 32 million blog readers in U.S.;
- RSS is gaining an impressive foothold with 5% of internet users aggregate their daily deliverance of blogs and other news with RSS or XML;
- BUT only 38% U.S. internet usesr know what blog is.
According to the survey, men are more likely to be blogging, most of them with broadband at home, most of them being online for more than 6 years. Blog readers seem to be somehow more of a mainstream group than bloggers themselves. Again, they are more likely to be men, young, more educated and with long online experience.
With only 38% (that’s only by my standards:)) of internet users, blogs are still in domain of sort of online geeks. But according to EPIC (for reference see the post on Media History Museum), this all is going to change.LOL. In his recent book, Who Let the Bloggers Out?, Biz Stone ask and answer the question on what blogs are:
Is blogging self expression, personal publishing, a diary, amateur journalism, the biggest disruptive technology since email, an online community, alternative media, curriculum for students, a customer relations strategy, knowledge management, navel gazing, a solution to boredom, a dream job, a style of writing, email to everyone, a fad, the answer to illiteracy, an online persona, social networking, resume fodder, phonecam pictures, or something you hide from your mother? It’s all of these and more.
A blog is a collection of digital content that, when examined over a period of time, exposes the intellectual soul of its author or authors is the act of creating, composing, and publishing this content; and a blogger is the person behind the curtain. Part social software and part web building, blogging is peer-to-peer publishing — the future of our connected lives (pp. 33-34).
I immediately looked at November’s RIS database to see what’s going on in Slovenia. Unfortunately, the questions about blogging were let out. I was rather disappointed. What I like about blogs best is the fact, that I find them very important sources of all sorts of information.
By Nana | January 4, 2005 | Topics: Blogging |