weblogs still not known....yet

I'm playing with Stapler again, and came up with an article on blogs written by Verne Kopytoff:

"The blogging community is still relatively small. Only 2 percent of online households visit a blog site once a week or more, according to a survey released last month by Forrester Research, a market research firm. In fact, a big portion of the respondents, 79 percent, had never even heard of blogging before the survey."

When I did my first presentation on weblogs and their impact on information delivery with Blake last year at CIL, only 1/3 of the attendees in the room knew what a blog was. This year, when I did my Keeping Current presentation at CIL, more than 3/4 of the room knew what a blog was and 1/3 new what RSS was. Great news. Our numbers are increasing, and I just hope that more and more libraries/librarians jump on the bandwagon.

Also since last years reaction to weblogs was the same as this years reaction to RSS, I wonder what next years reaction to this years RSS will be....stay tuned.