10 facts: Blogging is more of a part of your life than you might think

10 years ago, most people on the internet did n ot know what a “blog” was — and some still don’t. If you are reading this on joshlovesjen.com, then you are reading a blog — da-da-dum!…

Technorati.com is the leading source, next to Google in my opinion, for indexing blogs and blogs posts around the web. In their own words, “The leading blog search engine, Technorati.com indexes millions of blog posts in real time and surfaces them in seconds. The site has become the definitive source for the top stories, opinions, photos and videos emerging across news, entertainment, technology, lifestyle, sports, politics and business. Technorati.com tracks not only the authority and influence of blogs, but also the most comprehensive and current index of who and what is most popular in the Blogosphere.”

Taken from Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2009, here are 10 facts that you might not have known about the online culture of blogging:

1. 77% of Internet users read blogs.
2. There are currently 133 million blogs listed on leading blog directory Technorati.
3. 60% of bloggers are between the ages 18-44.
4. One in five bloggers update their blogs daily.
5. Not so surprising to me: Two thirds of bloggers are male.
6. Corporate blogging accounts for 14% of blogs.
7. 15% of bloggers spend 10 hours a week blogging.
8. More than half of all bloggers are married and/or parents.
9. More than 50% of bloggers have more than one blog.
10. Bloggers use an average of five different social sites to drive traffic to their blog.

For more interesting ideas about the web and where things are going, see this web/technology clog that I just found: http://thefuturebuzz.com/.

Tags: blog, Google, interesting, social networking

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