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Pew blog research
Some interesting numbers on the blogging phenomenon (via Douglas Fisher):
• 7 percent of U.S. Internet users say they have created blogs -- 8 million Americans. (It's gone up about 2 percentage points in each of the three surveys Pew has done since June 2002.)
• But then again, 62 percent do not know what a blog is
• 27 percent said they have read blogs, up from 17 percent in a February survey. That's 32 million Americans reading blogs. Much of the growth was the result of political blogs and the election.
• Those who read blogs tend to be male, young and well-educated). But there also has been greater-than-average growth among women, minorities, those 30-49, and those of us with dial-up connections at home.
Previous Pew surveys show that most people who post to blogs update them once a week or less. But most of us can quite anytime. No, really. I've got in under control.
Top ten media innovations for 2004
New York University's Prof. Jay Rosen, author and media critic, has a lengthy, must-read piece on emerging challenges to the way Americans produce and consume news. They are:.
1. The Legacy Media.
2. He said, she said, we said.
3. What the printing press did to the Catholic Church the blogging press does to the media church.
4. Open Source Journalism, or: "My readers know more than I do."
5. News turns from a lecture to a conversation.
6. "Content will be more important than its container."
7. "What once was good--or good enough--no longer is."
8. "The victory of affinity over geography."
9. The Pajamahadeen.
10. The Reality-Based Community
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