Blogging statistics from Pew

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.