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According to the latest State of the News Media report, the share of the online population that tried blogging peaked back in January 2005 at 10% and has hovered since at 8%. Blog readership, on the other hand is climbing. Some 40% of the online population said they have read a blog at least once, according to data from last year. Charts follow. More here. The data comes from Pew.
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Technorati shows tremendous blog growth for the very same period. With the more or less flat 8% either we assume that this growth simply came from the increasing number of "online population", or something doesn't compute ....
Posted by: Zoli Erdos | Monday, March 12, 2007 at 09:39 PM
These stats are over 14 months old Steve. When I saw your post and reference to Pew, I was hoping there was a new study. What's your take as to where we are now?
Posted by: Kevin O'Keefe | Monday, March 12, 2007 at 11:16 PM
I've seen plenty of blogs fall by the wayside, but I'm also seeing several new blogs about bicycling (my niche interest).
Posted by: Fritz | Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 01:08 AM
Job trends for bloggers seem to show the same flat period in April 2006 but an increase post that point.
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=blogger
Posted by: Jason Whitman | Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 09:19 AM
Where there are readers, there will be writers. The latter are merely letting the former catch up.
Posted by: Mike Abundo | Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 11:58 PM
I think the accuracy of the graph would be different depending on who you got it from. Everyones numbers are different, it's a hard thing to track.
Posted by: DanMac | Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 10:53 PM