- conferences (Blog World Expo),
- subspeciality conferences (God Blog Conference-"Helping Christians Engage New Media"),
- awards (The Best of the Blogs Award, The Weblog Awards),
- professional associations (International Blogging and New Media Association--although just in its infancy),
- a journal (Blogger & Podcasting),
- a related research organization/thinktank (Society for New Communications Research), or
- a $10,000 scholarship for college student bloggers (The Blogging Scholarship)
My point--blogging is here. And not a fringe activity; it's an integrated part of the communication patterns for many people. And we're seeing structure develop around blogging as it becomes even more prominent.
Here are some interesting statistics from the Blog World Expo website:
- Over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog.
- More than 147 million Americans use the Internet.
- Over 57 million Americns read blogs.
- 1.7 million American adults list making money as one of the reasons they blog.
- 89% of companies surveyed say they think blogs will be more important in the next five years.
- 9% of internet users say they have created blogs .
- 6% of the entire US adult population has created a blog .
- Technorati is currently tracking over 70 million blogs .
- over 120 thousand blogs are created every day .
- There are over 1.4 million new blog posts every day .
- 22 of the 100 most popular websites in the world are blogs .
- 120,000 new blogs are created every day .
- 37% of blog readers began reading blogs in 2005 or 2006 .
- 51% of blog readers shop online .
- Blog readers average 23 hours online each week .
No comments:
Post a Comment