Comments on: Blogging Survey Results: Demographics of Bloggers

By: Ganesh

Ganesh — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:29:54 +0000

I didn’t participate in the survey. I come from India. It’s not surprising that most of the bloggers are from USA. I had a vague opinion that most of the bloggers are from Philippines. Since many of the blogs I read are from Philippines and India.

By: Ganesh

Ganesh — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:29:00 +0000

By: Graham Strong

Graham Strong — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:28:01 +0000

Hi Chris,

Your geographic findings are not quite as skewed as you seem to think. Canada has a population of 30-35 million or just over 10% the population of the US. By your numbers, blogs in Canada are about 10% of those in the US. Similarly, the UK has about 60 million people (I believe — someone correct me if I’m wrong), or about 20% of the US population. Those numbers fit here too.

In fact, if you go by per capita, Australia has more bloggers than the US. Australia’s population is just over 20 million, or about 7% that of the US. Yet it has 59 bloggers — about 12% that of the US.

So on a purely per-capita basis (and based solely on your numbers), Australians tend to blog more than Americans.

~Graham

By: Graham Strong

Graham Strong — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:28:00 +0000

Hi Chris,

So on a purely per-capita basis (and based solely on your numbers), Australians tend to blog more than Americans.

~Graham

By: rjleaman

rjleaman — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:56:58 +0000

I’m not terribly surprised by the gender, geographic, and education breakdowns – given the readership who would have participated in the survey, and comparing it to the active membership of the Authority Blogger forum – but the age numbers are astonishing. I suspect that the “greying” of the blogosphere has something to do with the user-friendliness of most blogging platforms and the low cost of entry, but wonder if there’s something more psychological behind it as well. It would be interesting to see how the age data relates to the respondents’ motivations for blogging.

By: Rebecca Leaman

Rebecca Leaman — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:56:00 +0000

By: Lively Jason

Lively Jason — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:23:58 +0000

Interesting survey results. I’m sure the ladies won’t miss the fun and will catch-up in numbers soon!

By: Lively Jason

Lively Jason — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:23:00 +0000

Interesting survey results. I’m sure the ladies won’t miss the fun and will catch-up in numbers soon!

By: David Gerbino

David Gerbino — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:29:12 +0000

Chris, I found this blog post at “Jorge Camoes’ Charts ” and he was discussing how really good bloggers who preach solid blogging techniques do not know how to properly graph data as well as they can blog. I agree. I am no expert, but I did spend 3 days last with an expert. That expert’s name is Stephen Few and I attended his 3-day workshop in Boston, MA. Here is my advice:

For all of you who want to know the proper way to display data I strongly suggest you read Stephen Few’s book, “Show Me the Numbers”. It is a hard cover book constructed like a college text book. Its list price is 45 in United States Dollars. His website which has a lot of free content that can teach you the basics – http://www.perceptualedge.com

Good luck learning and remember this thought. We can all learn a little something from each other. Because of Jorge’s constructive criticism of your graphing capabilities, I found your blog and after I finish this post I am going to add it to my Goggle Reader.

- @dmgerbino

By: David Gerbino

David Gerbino — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:29:00 +0000

- @dmgerbino

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:40:01 +0000

I also think that Censorship might be a bigger barrier then language in China. The government goes to great length to censor them.

On a side not, the government over there don’t care much went businesses rakes in millions of dollar on real money trading

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:40:00 +0000

I also think that Censorship might be a bigger barrier then language in China. The government goes to great length to censor them.

On a side not, the government over there don’t care much went businesses rakes in millions of dollar on real money trading

By: Randa Clay

Randa Clay — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:24:55 +0000

I imagine the gender is a bit skewed here and says a bit more about the readership of this blog than about the blogosphere in general. There are tons of “mommy-bloggers” out there who are pretty unlikely to be reading ChrisG.com regularly.

By: Randa Clay

Randa Clay — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:24:00 +0000

By: Hendry Lee

Hendry Lee — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:50:08 +0000

Thanks for sharing Chris. Perhaps irrelevant but here are some interesting blog readers demographics about sexes. In 2005, more than 70% of blog readers are male (BlogAds). Pew/Internet said it was 57% men. It will soon catching up, I think, as in the Internet user demographics. 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere by Meredith also found that men are more likely to publish. (Look near the end of the post).

By: Hendry Lee

Hendry Lee — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:50:00 +0000

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:39:59 +0000

I have to say this is one of my favorite blog posts of the last month. Nice job. Although bloggers are predominately male, our female counterparts are still out there in high numbers. I hope to see this number rise.

Rick

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:39:00 +0000

Rick

By: Ellen Wilson

Ellen Wilson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:15:22 +0000

Hi Chris,

That’s kind of surprising. I too, thought the male/female ratio would equal.

I can’t believe you quit school when you were fifteen! That is even more surprising. You strike me as someone that is very educated. But then you know, formal schooling isn’t everything. Ha! Very often it counts for nothing. You are testament to the fact that you can teach yourself anything you want to learn. Thanks. Good teacher.

By: Ellen Wilson

Ellen Wilson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:15:00 +0000

Hi Chris,

That’s kind of surprising. I too, thought the male/female ratio would equal.