Yearly Archives: 2003

Blogging Demographics

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Thought you all would like to know this:

According to the survey, the typical blog is written by a teenage girl who uses it twice a month to update her friends and classmates on happenings in her life. It is written very informally with slang spellings, yet not as informal as instant messaging conversations (which are riddled with typos and abbreviations).

Actually, there is quite a bit of interesting stuff in this report by Perseus Development Corp which was presented at the recent Bloggercon 2003.
For example, 66% or 2.72 million blogs had been temporarly or permanently abandoned. But, the survey just looked at hosting sites like Blogspot, Xanga, Livejournal, TypePad, etc., and does not appear to have discovered all the folks that have abanded Blogspot to open shop elsewhere.
Via beSpacific.

Sticks and stones may break your bones….

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And those words will hurt as well:

Writing in the journal Science, Lieberman and Eisenberger said the brains of the volunteers lit up when they were rejected in virtually the same way as a person experiencing physical pain.
“It would be odd if social pain looked like the exact same thing as someone-breaking-your-arm pain,” Lieberman said in a telephone interview. “What it does look like is visceral pain.”
In other words — like being punched in the stomach.

Go check it out.