Comments on: Teacher’s guide to blogging http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2006/teachers-guide-to-blogging/ Notes from the classroom and observations about today's practice of journalism online Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:38:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Mindy McAdams http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2006/teachers-guide-to-blogging/#comment-15 Mindy McAdams Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:54:00 +0000 http://www.mindymcadams.com/tojou/2006/teachers-guide-to-blogging/#comment-15 What Powers did not mention was another <a HREF="http://poll.gallup.com/content/?ci=21397" REL="nofollow">Gallup finding</a>: "[O]ne in five Web users read Web-logs, or 'blogs,' either frequently or occasionally." What Powers did not mention was another Gallup finding: “[O]ne in five Web users read Web-logs, or ‘blogs,’ either frequently or occasionally.”

]]> By: Mindy McAdams http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2006/teachers-guide-to-blogging/#comment-14 Mindy McAdams Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:49:19 +0000 http://www.mindymcadams.com/tojou/2006/teachers-guide-to-blogging/#comment-14 Postscript: In an article dated Friday, March 3, 2006, William Powers wrote (in the National Journal, which will move this story behind a subscription wall so fast, there is no point in linking it) that blogs are "overhyped and underperforming." I can't disagree with that, generally speaking.<br/><br/>Powers continued: "In a new Gallup Poll, only 9 percent of U.S. Internet users said they frequently read blogs. Worse, blogs are flatlining. 'It seems the growth in the number of U.S. blog readers was somewhere between nil and negative last year,' Gallup said." <br/><br/>Technorati says something like 70,000 new blogs are created every day. Well, naturally most of them will have an audience of one. <br/><br/>But do not miss the point that some blogs have significant readership. It's not that all blogs are bad and poorly attended (so to speak). Postscript: In an article dated Friday, March 3, 2006, William Powers wrote (in the National Journal, which will move this story behind a subscription wall so fast, there is no point in linking it) that blogs are “overhyped and underperforming.” I can’t disagree with that, generally speaking.

Powers continued: “In a new Gallup Poll, only 9 percent of U.S. Internet users said they frequently read blogs. Worse, blogs are flatlining. ‘It seems the growth in the number of U.S. blog readers was somewhere between nil and negative last year,’ Gallup said.”

Technorati says something like 70,000 new blogs are created every day. Well, naturally most of them will have an audience of one.

But do not miss the point that some blogs have significant readership. It’s not that all blogs are bad and poorly attended (so to speak).

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