Drilling Down: Blog Traffic Grows, and Itâs Mostly Male
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Slightly more men than women read online newspapers, and that trend is more pronounced on newspaper blogs.
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Search Engine Watch gains a blog, as a new method of better speading news and information about search engines to readers.
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Blogs are increasingly popular, and can have a dramatic effect on search engine positioning. How can you best take advantage of this new search marketing channel?
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Interesting data  this morning (thanks Dan ) on weblogs:  "Blog readership shoots up 58% in 2004 6 million Americans get news and information fed to them through RSS aggregators But 62% of online Americans do not know what a blog is"  Read the PDF  for more stats (man I hate PDF).  "27% of internet users say they read blogs, a 58% jump from the 17% who told us they were blog readers in February. This means that by the end of 2004 32 million Americans were blog readers. Much of the attention to blogs focused on those that covered the recent political campaign and the media. And at least some of the overall growth in blog readership is attributable to political blogs. Some 9% of internet users ...
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Since most people using the MSN Spaces service are are just getting their weblogs up and running, it&#39;s not easy to tell what a full-fledged blog on the site will look like.
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Hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of business travelers who write blogs have learned that their Web journals are more than online platforms to blow off steam.
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(InfoWorld) - Tagging, the emblematic activity of the "Web 2.0" and social computing era, appears destined for mainstream status, a new study concludes. Among U.S. Internet users, 28 percent have taggedÂ online content like blog entries, photos, Web sites, video clips, and news articles, The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports in a study released Wednesday. On any particular day, 7 percent of users engage in this activity to categorize and label material they upload or find on the Web. Justen Deal, a manager in Los Angeles who tags news articles on sites like Slashdot, believes that as the use of tagging increases, it will give blogging and the Web in general a significant boost by making content easier to organize and discover. "Right now we have one great big pile of stuff on the Web, and especially in the blogosphere," Deal said. "With tagging, both by the content author and the public, I think there'll be a good opportunity to start moving content into more specific, relevant piles, that would help make sorting through the blogosphere a lot easier and a lot more useful for a lot of people." Because this is Pew's first survey about tagging, the study doesn't quantify how fast tagging adoption is growing, but it points at the rising popularity of tagging sites like Flickr and del.icio.us as an indicator that the practice is increasing in popularity. Jill Hurst-Wahl, president of Hurst Associates, a digitization consulting firm in Syracuse, New York, began tagging about a year ago and finds it very useful and convenient. Recently, she has attended conferences in which attendees agree to tag their blog postings and photos about the event with specific labels. This has made it possible for her to find a wealth of material online from conference attendees in a way that would have been impossible, or at least much more difficult, without tagging. While she finds the 28 percent adoption rate the study reveals encouraging,Â Hurst-Wahl still encounters many people who are completely unfamiliar with the concept of tagging or who, ironically, do tag, but don't recognize the term or fully comprehend the scope of the practice. "To some extent, tagging is user friendly, but a lot of people don't understand it," she said in a phone interview. Tagging is catching on as people realize the convenience of categorizing sites and files online and as large Internet players like Google and Yahoo, which owns Flickr and del.icio.us, offer tagging features in their services, like Web mail, search, photo and video sharing,and social bookmarking, according to Pew. "The act of tagging is likely to be embraced by a more mainstream population in the future because many organizations are making it easier and easier to tag Internet content," the report reads. By giving people the chance to organize online content they're interested in and sharing it with others, tagging helps with the perennial challenge of finding useful things on the Web. "Tagging is a kind of next-stage search phenomenon -- a way to mark, store, and then retrieve the Web content that users already found valuable and of which they want to keep track," the report reads. For its study, Pew surveyed adult U.S. residents in December 2006 and found that men and women are equally likely to tag content online. "Taggers" are more likely to be under the age of 40, to have high education and income levels, and to have broadband Internet access at home.
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If you&#39;re the tech-savvy sort, you may already know about blogs. If not, blog is short for Web log, a sort of online journal. They&#39;re the hottest thing to hit the Internet since Anna Kournikova.
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Target to the blogosphere: youâre irrelevant.
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There&#8217;s an old golden rule in terms of choosing a career or venture which still applies today, even to blogging; love your work. Being passionate about our jobs, entrepreneurial endeavours, or daily routine can make the difference between success or failure. From a personal standpoint, I&#8217;m passionate about growing this blog and covering the search engine [...]
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Sexual harassment complaints by men are becoming more common, according to a published report. Follow the news that matters to you.
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Blogs and wikis are wonderful tools, but they can devolve into the online equivalent of grunting apes.
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The 2004 presidential campaign has marked the coming of age for Internet 'blog' journals as a cutting edge political tool for raising cash and revving up political support.
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Both employers and prospective employees are finding that blogging can be useful in the job search process.
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Blog: The Internet statistics firm found that the social networking site experienced an 89% growth in traffic, mostly outside of the "collegiate" 18-24 age demographic, when it announced that the once-exclusive service now had open registration.
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Blog: Blogs: they're here. They're read. Get used to it.
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NEW YORK - &quot;Blog&quot; is now the most popular search word in the online version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Its frequent lookup paralleled its growth on the political scene this year as keepers of Web logs