U.S. blog readers as a percentage of all U.S. Internet users
March 2003	11%
February 2004	17%
November 2004	27%
March 2005	25%*

Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project Survey, released May 2, 2005

* Though this is a slight drop, Pew says it's within their margin of error so it's essentially flat

Blog Readership Flat

An update to a report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that the number of Americans who read blogs remained steady at 32 million from November 2004 until March 2005. That's a slowdown from the last six months, which saw a 58% increase in blog readership. However, the number of Americans who created blogs rose to 9% of Internet users, up from 7%. And blogging is still more popular with the younger set: 36% of Web users, aged 18-29, say they have read blogs, compared to only 18% over 50.

Posted: 5/23/05

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