Andy,
Oddly enough I was looking at similar numbers when I looked at
Democracy, Weblogs and Media <http://www.knowprose.com/node/15180>
The clincher here is that since 2002, internet penetration has doubled
globally - with over 1 billion users worldwide out of a potential 6.6
billion. Yet, Technorati monitors 42 million weblogs (as of last night).
It started with 12,000 in November of 2002. From the figures I saw...
not the ones you see...
0.64618396230300616502886674536798% of people on the planet have a weblog.
4.1061205062857924964161413603235% of internet users on the planet have
a weblog.
I'll look at your numbers shortly, and do some more crunching. If there
are better numbers for global internet penetration, global population
and weblogs - I am quite interested.
Andy Carvin wrote:
Hi everyone,
I've just posted an overview of the latest report from the Pew
Internet & American Life Project, which focuses on home broadband
access in the US and who's posting content to the Internet. Broadband
access is up across the board, with middle income family access
growing at the fastest rate. English-speaking Latinos are now almost
as likely (41%) to have broadband at home as white families (42%),
while African American families lag a bit behind (31%). Income and
education levels continue to remain major barriers, though growth was
seen at all levels. DSL access has become more affordable, though many
more households cite speed as their reason for getting broadband (57%)
compared to the lowering of cost (3%), suggesting that more people are
willing to pay for it in order to gain the benefits of high-speed access.
To me, though, the most interesting part of the report focuses on
online content publishing. Overall, 35% of Internet users - 48 million
people - have posted content to the Internet. Broadband users are more
likely to post online content than dialup users - 42% versus 27%. This
is especially true of bloggers and people who manage their own
websites. While an average of eight percent of Internet users publish
their own blog, 11% of broadband users had blogs, compared to only
four percent of dialup users. And amazingly, lower-income users were a
bit more likely to post content online than higher-income users, while
whites _lagged_ behind African Americans and English-speaking Latinos
- 32%, 39% and 42% respectively.
You can download the 26-page report here:
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/184/report_display.asp
My overview of it can be found here:
http://www.andycarvin.com
permalink:
http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/06/new_report_says_broa.html
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