Blogging Report: The State of Blogs

The blogosphere is doubling in size every six months and is now 60 times larger than it was three years ago, But do people read blogs?? Pew Internet and American Life Project released an intriguing new report: Gallup poll has shown that an increasing number of people who use the internet are more frequently turning to blogs than other sites for their information. They say that about 20% of the people are using blogs on a normal basis. But what do Blogger's write about? These were the most common primary blog topics cited by pew: "My life and experiences:" 37% Politics and government: 11% Entertainment: 7% Sports: 6% General news and current events: 5% Business: 5% Technology: 4% Religion, spirituality or faith: 2% Hobbies: 1% Health: 1% Spam/scrap missing I guess?? Pew surveyed 7,012 US adults by phone, including 4,753 internet users, 8% of whom are bloggers. Why do people abandon Blogging?? 25 percent of all new blogs are what the researchers call "one-day wonders." The abandonment rate appears to be effecting well-established blogs: Acording to a Perseus study, over 132,000 blogs are abandoned after a year of constant updating. The average duration of the remaining 1.63 million abandoned blogs was 126 days (almost four months) Common reasons for abandonment include simple boredom, lack of feedback and readers, Struck up with other activities and cannot spend time on blog. Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark murdok: Praneeth is the author of the "