Ad Rag notes that a Perseus study on blog demographics is misleading.
Perseus says that females are more like than males to create blogs, accounting for 56% of hosted blogs. However, the survey doesn’t cover non-hosted blogs — blogs that individuals maintain on their own servers instead of on the servers of blog software companies like Blogspot, Typepad, LiveJournal, etc.
In other words, they didn’t count Ad Rag, Slashdot, Kottke, What’s Next Blog or other prominent blogs that use their own servers.
Do More Women Blog Than Men? Probably Not
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Yep, those homebrew blogs make blogs notorious hard to count. ;) Then again look at your random selection there, isn’t it girl, boy, boy, girl? I wonder how big of a difference it would make if all homebrews would be included, lots of old homebrew blogs I have been following for years have been 50-50 male-female, so maybe, just maybe, girls would still be in the lead. Who knows?
I hope to see a survey that takes all blogs into account someday. :)
Well…if they HAD counted those prominent blogs, and BlogCritic, and Misbehaving, as well, I bet you’d find a good number of ladies blogging. Many women’s blogs are focused on family and home…not on business. So, the question seems to be: can we divide the business blogs from the journaling blogs, and…should we? I read both because the journaling blogs provide a peek into the private lives of individuals…and aren’t THEY the market the business blogs serve? Women…not men…are the online shoppers extraordinaire. So, I think women do blog more than men. IMHO, of course. :-)
More Blog Bests
Hmmm. This seems to be a seasonal thing; everywhere I go, there’s another one. Here is one that makes me very happy: Blaugustine came first
More Blog Bests
Hmmm. This seems to be a seasonal thing; everywhere I go, there’s another one. Here is one that makes me very happy: Blaugustine came first
More Blog Bests
Hmmm. This seems to be a seasonal thing; everywhere I go, there’s another one. Here is one that makes me very happy: Blaugustine came first
I am the editor of The Marcus Letter, which I think is not a blog, and has been online for more than 8 years, with an internatinal readership of more 22,000. I’m the author of some 14 books, the latest of which is Client At The Core (with August Aquila; John Wiley and Sons, 2004. I’d be delighted to have Wiley send you a review copy. I want to do a piece on blogs, and would like a review copy of your book, and a chance to talk to you about it. Bruce W. Marcus
For the record, I blog because I can’t imagine where else I can write what really matters to me. Sure, it’s helped me build a writing platform for my book and magazine. But try pitching someone at a magazine a story about your insecurities, issues at work, etc. I imagine that I would get blown off, the editor’s equivalent of saying who cares? To think that editors always know what matters is insane. Blogs put real life on the record; that in itself is worth something.