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**Learning Newbie** · 04-02-2008, 07:13 PM

Cross post. A friend of mine keeps sending me these interesting links, and this is one I think a lot of people around here will get a kick out of.

http://www.marketingcharts.com/inter...-diverse-3432/

Bloggers are younger and better educated but earn less than the general U.S. adult (18+) population - and they are more likely to be single, male, and actively engaged in new media, according to a study by BIGresearch.
Of those who blog occasionally or regularly (26% of the [online] population):

53.7% are male.
Nearly half (44.7%) are married.
One in 10 (10.4%) are students.
28.4% hold a professional orÂ managerial position.

**jamestl2** · 04-02-2008, 09:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

Bloggers are younger and better educated but earn less than the general U.S. adult (18+) population - and they are more likely to be single, male, and actively engaged in new media, according to a study by BIGresearch.

I fit all those criteria

. It's surprising though that the study says that only 1/10 bloggers are students, I thought it would have been higher, maybe around 35-40% or so.

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Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

Cross post. A friend of mine keeps sending me these interesting links, and this is one I think a lot of people around here will get a kick out of.

So he's spamming you then

**Learning Newbie** · 04-03-2008, 03:08 PM

More or less, yeah, he's spamming me. Although it's someone who decided I'm an intellectual and so would enjoy stuff - the guy isn't actually trying to profit off me.

**Cheshire_cat** · 04-03-2008, 03:23 PM

I thought about doing a blog, but you know...

**ECSuite_Russell** · 04-04-2008, 01:35 PM

Does anyone else still get slightly tweaked at the internet still being called 'new media'? Reminds me of a stand up act I saw like a decade ago.

"I'm not really into computers, of course saying your not really into computers nowadays is like saying you aren't really into phones."

Or something like that.