Monday, December 20, 2004
More Blog Statistics
- About two-thirds of American adults use the Internet, and more than 55 percent have access to a high-speed Internet connection at either home or work.
- More than 53 million people have contributed material online, according to a spring 2003 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
- More than 15 million have their own website.
- A new blog, or online journal, is created every 5.3 seconds, according to Technorati.com, a site that tracks the known universe of these easily updated websites. As of November 1, there were almost 4.3 million blogs, a million more than three months before. More than half of them are regularly updated by their creators, producing more than 400,000 fresh postings every day. (Full disclosure: My brother David is the founder of Technorati.)
ยง A well-written blog, Joshua Micah Marshall's Talking Points Memo, gets more than 500,000 monthly visitors--as many as the entire website of The American Prospect, the magazine where Marshall used to work, at a fraction of the cost.
