Saturday, December 18

Blogging ‘Peaks,’ But Reports of Its Death Are Exaggerated

(A) new Pew Internet report finds that blogging by teenagers has fallen by half since 2006, and even young adults seem to be dropping the habit.

At the same time, however, blogging’s popularity increased among most older generations, and as a result the rate of blogging for all online adults rose slightly overall from 11 percent in late 2008 to 14 percent in 2010.

Yet, while the act formally known as blogging seems to have peaked, internet users are doing blog-like things in other online spaces as they post updates about their lives, musings about the world, jokes, and links on social networking sites and micro-blogging sites such as Twitter.

Read more at Wired