Only 6% of Americans read blogs: study

by Duncan Riley

A new study of 68,664 people from Forrester Research found that only 6% of Americans reported reading blogs.

The study, widely mentioned in the main stream media, also found that only 2% of Americans reported using RSS.

However, what was not made clear from the study results is whether the participants were actually asked if they knew what a blogs or RSS was, a problem that has been discovered previously, where many people read blogs or use RSS services (including My Yahoo!) without realizing the name of the technology they were viewing or using.

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  1. By N. Mallory posted on August 5, 2005 at 9:43 am
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    Wasn’t there just a study saying there’s a new blog started every second? Sounds conflicting.

  2. By Russell posted on August 5, 2005 at 12:25 pm
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    What percent of Americans read newspapers? What cable news?

  3. By ian posted on August 6, 2005 at 11:53 am
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    > What percent of Americans read newspapers? What cable news?

    That’s what I want to know also, esp. the newspaper stats.

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