The Pew Internet & American Life Project has some new statistics available from its survey of 2,871 internet users from January 2005 through March 2005.
- 9% of internet users now say they have created blogs.
- 6% of the entire U.S. adult population have created blogs.
- 25% of internet users say they read blogs.
- The number of adult readers of blogs is about 40% of the size of the talk radio audience.
- The blog-reading audience is about 20% of the size of the newspaper-reading population.
I will comment more once the full report is available.
Are these not the same guys who embarassed themself if statistical lies on blogging earlier this year?
Pew produced some bad podcasting statistics earlier in the year but I have not heard of their blog statistics being questioned. Keep in mind the sample size is less than 3000 and therefore these statistics extrapolate a lot from a sampling that might be a 0.01% of the entire blogging population.