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A study by the The Pew Internet and American Life Project has found that, after an initial rush, the number of practicing bloggers has reached a plateau. CNN cites the report as revealing that "somewhere between 2 percent and 7 percent of adult Internet users in the United States actually keep their own blogs. Of those, only about 10 percent update them daily, the majority doing so only once a week or less often." I'm not surprised. Blogging is a commitment, though not a "feverish" one, according to Lee Rainie, the Pew project's director. "For most bloggers, it's not an all-consuming, all-the-time kind of experience." Had the study considered demographics however, it may have discovered that there is a disproportionately high number of teenage bloggers, which perhaps points to higher growth in the future. Then again, who knows what the web will be like in 10 or 20 years' time? Will the weblog concept still exist, as we know it today? I lie awake at night wondering about such things. (Yes, I am joking. Sort of.)