who blogs?

26% of all adults say they regularly or occasionally blog
53.7% are male
Almost half (44.7%) are married
28.4% hold a professional or managerial position
1 in 10 (10.4%) are students
Bloggers are 37.6 years old on average
69.7% White/Caucasian
12.2% are African American/Black
3.7% are Asian
20% are Hispanic
Average income: $55,819
Average education: 14.3 years

Findings by BIGresearch’s Simultaneous Media Survey (SIMM 11) of 15,727 individuals.

I suspect “all adults” means “all American adults who we could round up for this survey”, but the researchers themselves do not specify.

Also reported: "More Democrats than Republicans are blogging, but Libertarians are #1".

a new feed for your bloglines

Jezebel: A new blog from the folks who brought you LifeHacker.

I especially like this post for the title alone: Botox Will Make You Batshit Insane.

blogalicious

Bloggers look a lot better than I thought they would.

Constantine Stavropoulos, owner of Tryst in D.C., as quoted in this morning’s New York Times.

Stavropoulos closed the doors at Tryst for a “blog party” where bloggers convened to post about the election and stream periodically to CNN. Alabama-Democrat reports that bloggers from the Wonkette and Huffington Post were in attendance; Kos declined the invitation.