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Bloggers are a mostly young, racially diverse group of people who have never been published anywhere else and who most often use cyberspace to talk about their personal lives, according to a report on blogging released yesterday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
...The report, called “Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers,” relied on two telephone surveys conducted over the last year.
...Despite a potentially vast audience in cyberspace, the Pew project found that 52 percent of bloggers said they blogged mostly for themselves. When asked for a major reason for blogging, 52 percent said it was to express themselves creatively and 50 percent said it was to document and share personal experiences.
-- Felicia R. Lee, "Survey of the Blogosphere Finds 12 Million Voices" in The NY Times
Well, they finally got us pinned down. I guess the romance is probably gone now that they have sucked out all the mystique. We really are not cyber-revolutionaries getting ready to take over the world.
I wonder if this means the government will no longer eavesdrop on us. In truth, I would miss them, because it was kind of nice thinking somebody was reading this thing and thinking that it might be important. But then maybe that's the real romance of blogging.
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Bloggers are a mostly young, racially diverse group of people who have never been published anywhere else and who most often use cyberspace to talk about their personal lives, according to a report on blogging released yesterday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
...The report, called “Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers,” relied on two telephone surveys conducted over the last year.
...Despite a potentially vast audience in cyberspace, the Pew project found that 52 percent of bloggers said they blogged mostly for themselves. When asked for a major reason for blogging, 52 percent said it was to express themselves creatively and 50 percent said it was to document and share personal experiences.
-- Felicia R. Lee, "Survey of the Blogosphere Finds 12 Million Voices" in The NY Times
Well, they finally got us pinned down. I guess the romance is probably gone now that they have sucked out all the mystique. We really are not cyber-revolutionaries getting ready to take over the world.
I wonder if this means the government will no longer eavesdrop on us. In truth, I would miss them, because it was kind of nice thinking somebody was reading this thing and thinking that it might be important. But then maybe that's the real romance of blogging.
