Growing Tide of Blogs

The blog population is exploding around the world, resembling the growth of e-mail users in the 1990s. Blogs that covered the U.S. Presidential race last year drove the phenomenon's growth in America. But blogs are also taking off as chat boards and alternative newspapers in countries like Iran, Egypt, and China. What's the key to the continued growth? Fast development of easy-to-use photo, music, and video blogs are essential. That will push the movement into the vast sector of humanity that doesn't like to write.

2005
April -----> 8,700,000
Jan--------> 6,600,000

Blog Readership on the Rise

The number of people reading blogs is rising dramatically, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, which has been tracking blog readership since March, 2003. From February to November last year, those who say they read blogs jumped 58%, to 32 million readers. Still, only 38% of Internet users knew what a Web log was at the time of Pew's most recent survey in November. And Pew can't track how many people might be reading blogs without knowing their name.

source: BussinessWeekOnline:
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