Thursday March 4, 2004
CNN published an interesting report today which found that there are not as many bloggers on the Net as many people seem to think. It seems that between 2 and 7 percent of adults in the United States (Canada is probably little different) have their own Weblog and only about ten percent of these update on a daily basis. The vast majority update once a week or less. I would guess the even more vast majority post once and never post again!
You can read the complete article here.
Comments (2) »
1. Cheri
March 5, 2004
11:57 AM
That was interesting, so I guess I am almost in the 10% percentile cetegory. (note I say “almost”). Hmmm… if there are so few bloggers out there, maybe someday my site could be hot spot….haha..
2. Mr. Freen
March 7, 2004
3:38 AM
According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the resident population of the United States, projected to 3/7/2004 at 3:21:11 AM EST is 292,742,635.
http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html
Accepting the low end of the scale at 2%, that’s a measley 5,854,843 (rounded) web-logs in the US alone. According to the 2000 census, that’s a larger population base than every city in the United States with the exception of New York.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763098.html
Sure, positively NOBODY is doing blogs. Just 2%, that’s all.
I’d be delighted if each and every US blogger sent me one penny. That’s right, I’m not greedy. You think I’m asking for a dollar? I’m not even asking for a dime.
Nope. One cent. Anybody around here consider $58,548.53 petty cash?
That’s what I thought.