Tuesday, October 07, 2003

We all KNEW I had an innate association with teenage girls Some blog demographics from the Harvard BloggerCon powow.  Perseus estimates there are 4.12 million blogs on eight hosting services. But the research company estimated that 66% - 2.72 million - haven't been updated in two months and that 1.09 million haven't been updated since the first day. The average duration for an abandoned blog was 126 days, according to the survey of 3,634 blogs. The study was done for the BloggerCon 2003 conference at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., which was held last weekend. The study fleshed out demographics on the blogging population, which it said with 90% being created and written by people between the ages of 13 and 29. Fifty-one percent of bloggers are between 13 and 19, and 39% are between 20 and 29. Just under 6% are between 30 and 39, with 1.3% or under between 10-12, 40-49, 50-59 and 60-69. A slight majority of bloggers (56%) are female, and the study found they're more likely to stick to it than males. Well, that's not so bad, I suppose, since the negative stereotype on bloggers among the snobbish non-wired country club types are either a) illiterate, over-pampered teenage drama queens or b) over-melancholied, bespectacled indie-culture scenesters.  I would be in favor of making some distinction between "bloggers" and "journalers," but since I often don't make the distinction myself, I don't suppose I could advocate it with much credibility (not that it could really be done anyway.) 9:22:14 PM    comment [] Truth is... stranger than fiction.  You know, just so you don't feel bad about yourselves.  I think I'm going to go snivel now.  Seriously bizarre.  10:42:29 AM    comment []

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