I’ve mentioned more than once recently that the blogosphere seems to enjoy roughly half-and-half participation among males and females.
These results have been confirmed in another survey of weblogs, this one concentrating on hosted blogs only. (A hosted blog is one that resides on a “parent” site, such as blogger.com or livejournal.com. This blog you’re currently reading isn’t hosted, though my diaryland site is.) Females account for 56% of those with hosted blogs, according to this white paper by Perseus.
Among some of the other notable statistics were:
- 66% of hosted blogs have not been updated within the last two months
- Of the 4.12 million blogs created on hosting services, only 106,579 are updated at least once a week, and fewer than 50,000 are updated daily.
- 92.4% of bloggers are under the age of 30.
Perhaps then it was wrong to title this article men’s vs. women’s blogs, when most bloggers are, in fact, just lickle boys and girls. Aaaaw.
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From a surfers p.o.v. I would agree that there is about half and half female to male blogs/diaries.
I would say that most blogs are read by people's own friends and family. Women probably spend more time reading blogs than men do but that's just my guess.