Blogging is Booming
This link was emailed to me by Neely, saying "This is an article that highlights the characteristics of bloggers. There is a nifty little chart at the bottom that compares them to web surfers."
While it's mostly about advertising on blogs and the numbers of bloggers, Blogging is Booming also tells us this:
"The Quris research shows that blog readers skew somewhat younger than average Web surfers, are power-users of the Net and media junkies in general, spend more money online, and consume a disproportionate amount of literature, pop culture and electronics. No big surprises there for anyone who reads blogs, but the bottom line is that this segment sounds like an attractive demographic for advertisers."
This data is on blog readers, but we already saw earlier that the Perseus Websurvey stated most blog writers were also young. That survey found that only .7% of blogs were maintained by persons ages 51-69. The survey also found that 92.4% of blogs were created by persons aged 29 and younger.
In my surveys, 7% of respondents were aged 51-60. 53% were aged 30 and under. 37% were ages 31-50. Weblogging seems to be especially popular amongst Christians between the ages of 21-40, with 70% of all respondents falling in this category. Over half (52%) of all respondents in my surveys were between 21-30 years of age. (see "Age of Respondents" on my March 25th post here for the age statistics of those who participated).
There is interesting discussion going on over at The Revealer (see the comments on that post) about senior citizens and others being left out of the conversation of God blogs.
What does this mean for the conversation? Are we as Christian bloggers missing the input of the older generations in our conversations online? Is this important?
This link was emailed to me by Neely, saying "This is an article that highlights the characteristics of bloggers. There is a nifty little chart at the bottom that compares them to web surfers."
While it's mostly about advertising on blogs and the numbers of bloggers, Blogging is Booming also tells us this:
"The Quris research shows that blog readers skew somewhat younger than average Web surfers, are power-users of the Net and media junkies in general, spend more money online, and consume a disproportionate amount of literature, pop culture and electronics. No big surprises there for anyone who reads blogs, but the bottom line is that this segment sounds like an attractive demographic for advertisers."
This data is on blog readers, but we already saw earlier that the Perseus Websurvey stated most blog writers were also young. That survey found that only .7% of blogs were maintained by persons ages 51-69. The survey also found that 92.4% of blogs were created by persons aged 29 and younger.
In my surveys, 7% of respondents were aged 51-60. 53% were aged 30 and under. 37% were ages 31-50. Weblogging seems to be especially popular amongst Christians between the ages of 21-40, with 70% of all respondents falling in this category. Over half (52%) of all respondents in my surveys were between 21-30 years of age. (see "Age of Respondents" on my March 25th post here for the age statistics of those who participated).
There is interesting discussion going on over at The Revealer (see the comments on that post) about senior citizens and others being left out of the conversation of God blogs.
What does this mean for the conversation? Are we as Christian bloggers missing the input of the older generations in our conversations online? Is this important?
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