Blogging: Not For Everybody

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.)

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kote / March 2, 2004 9:30 PM / #

Maybe the blogging comunity will indeed increase, however most people don't get the point of having a web log. Is it the reaching a public, is it sharing your thoughts, what is it? I myself am not very sure... people might be more interested in reading great blogs than actually publishing them.
If anyone can explain the big thing behind this new trend, I would very much appreciate it.

Michael Heraghty / March 18, 2004 12:40 PM / #

>>Is it the reaching a public, is it sharing your thoughts, what is it?

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