ContraCostaTimes.com | 01/05/2006 | Blogging finds its audience in 2005

Here is an end of year/beginning of the new year overview of blogs. Dan Rubin covers most of the possible indicators of interest and tells us how blogs fared. From a comparison of "Blogs" to "Jesus" and "sex" at least insofar as what folks Googled during the year -- "blogs" topped the others, to when "blogs" entered the language, to how blogs and advertising converged, he's got the scoop. Here are some of his facts:

• Nine percent of American adults who surf the Web write blogs(13 million people)
• 27 percent of Internet users read them -- 39 million Americans.
• 30,000 to 70,000 new ones blogs each day
• 20 million to 23 million total worldwide
The blogosphere is doubling in size every five months for three years now. Read the article for even more goodies about blogs as we make the 2005/2006 yearly transisition. ContraCostaTimes.com | 01/05/2006 | Blogging finds its audience in 2005