About half of bloggers are something
Slate’s Jack Shafer dug into the latest Pew report on blogging yesterday, pushing past his usual A-list favorites to find out Who Are These Fuckin’ Bloggers?:
About half of all American bloggers are men, says Pew. About half are under the age of 30. About half use a pseudonym. About half say creative self-expression or documenting personal experiences is a major reason for blogging. About half think their audience is folks they already know. Half say changing people’s minds is not a major reason behind their blog, and about half had never published before starting their blog. (The margin of error for the telephone survey was plus or minus 7 percentage points.)
Shafer contrasts the report with his own anecdotal A-lister description:
Most A-listers are men over 30; have published before; are in it primarily to change public opinions and not to share their experiences; know only a fraction of their readers; and don’t conceal their identities.
Damn you, Shafer! Now that you’ve unlocked The A-List Code, we can publicly confirm: in order to crack the A-list, make sure you’re trying to change public opinions with your REAL name, and come equipped with a birthdate earlier than 1976 and a penis.
Who Are All These Bloggers? [Slate]
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on July 21, 2006 at 12:10 am Roy Tahsin wrote:
you mean to say you didn’t make your own list? tsk tsk.
on August 5, 2006 at 5:30 pm Jeremy S. wrote:
I like the pie chart. Wherever did you get it? It’s really quite beautiful. A work of art, you might even say.
