Salon.com has an interesting article that describes that according to a recent Pew Internet study, both blogging (from 5% of all Internet users to 7%) and the reading of blogs (from 17% to 27%) increased in 2004, mainly due to events surrounding the November elections and the tsunami tragedy. The article notes,

Blog creators tend to be male, affluent, well-educated and young; 70 percent of them have high-speed connections at home, and 82 percent have been online at least six years.

Hey, I resemble that remark. But the articles also describes: “Despite the attention to blogging, a large number of Americans remain clueless -- only 38 percent of Internet users know what a blog is.” Ahhh, life on the cutting edge