Nowadays, blogging is one of the fastest growing hobbies on the Net where it can be seen that the average blogger has three or more blogs and has been blogging for two or more years. It has become one of the common interest amongst the public. The most common rates for updating are 2-3 times per week (Godin, 2009).
Current Trend of Blogging
According to surveys, the majority of bloggers are more affluent and well educated than the general population. 75% of them represent college graduates and 40% of them are degree graduates (Arrington 2009). In addition, 60% of the bloggers are at the age of 18 years to 44 years. Well, it can be proven that blogging covers quite a large range of people in the population.
Benefit to the Community
Blogs connect people who share the same interests. Through this, each blogger’s interests are can be satisfied even niche interests. For the commercial producers, advertising through blogs is lower and its very targeted its cost of operation since it is maintaining a blog is free and easy to gather the similar interest of the users.
Reference:
Arrington, M 2009, ‘Day 1: Who Are The Bloggers? SOTB 2009’, Technorati, viewed 20 April 2010, <>http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-1-who-are-the-bloggers1/>.
Godin, S 2009, ‘Day 3: The How of Blogging: SOTB 2009’, Technorati, viewed 20 April 2010,
Bibliography:
Technorati, 2010, viewed 18 April 2010, < http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-1-who-are-the-bloggers1/>.
Technorati, 2010, viewed 18 April 2010, < http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-3-the-how-of-blogging1/>.
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