Blogging By The Numbers There’s now a research coming out about the “space” (yes, it’s a “space” now). The numbers suggest that there are between 2.4 and 2.9 million blogs, with the majority of them using free hosting services from LiveJournal, Blogger or DiaryLand. What they don’t see is how many of these sites are actually updated on a regular basis, and how many were just someone messing around for a couple of days. Jupiter has found that about 2% of the online community has created a blog – and that it’s split evenly between genders, with most bloggers being experienced online users (online at least 5 years). The odd thing is that while the gender split is equal for writers, the readers are skewed to the male side. Also, the readers seem wealthier than the writers. More than half of all blog writers have household incomes of less than $60,000, but more than half of blog readers have household incomes over $60,000. I always wonder where these dudes creating such reports get their info from – non representative “studies” some weeks agonbsp“found out” for instance that almost 20% of german Euros were contaminated with cocain? can you believe it? me not.