Lotsa Bloggers
July 19th, 2006Pew is out with a new report today on bloggers (Pew’s got RSS Feeds, if you’re into their work) which will make for interesting train reading tomorrow. From the first page.
“Blogs, the survey finds, are as individual as the people who keep them. However, most bloggers are primarily interested in creative, personal expression – documenting individual experiences, sharing practical knowledge, or just keeping in touch with friends and family.”
We also learn that there is a “small proportion” of professional blogs, which really interests me the most. Is this because of the gazillion MySpace blogs (did they count those?) or because most don’t see blogs as enhancing the work they do as professionals, which, of course, they do.
Most of us work 8-10 hour days. Why are we not blogging about that stuff? Maybe I’ll find out in the report when I read it.
BTW, librarians have, by far, the most professional blogs. My conclusions are by no means scientific. When I was at PubSub, I looked at this stuff all day (Oh, what a wonderful service we could have provided to the industy - ho-hum). Second would have to be the PR bloggers. Third. Maybe the legal profession.