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Comment author: JoshuaZ 19 November 2010 04:09:23AM 0 points [-]

ut yet, I can't locate the raw data from the Pew surveys or Nielsen to see any of the breakdowns of internet usage. It's interesting to see that supposedly 10% of all American read blogs every day. That's kind of surprising... I would venture to say it's unbelievable in fact. My guess is the methodology was a phone survey and it only include the "All Americans" who have stable land lines in urban and suburban areas.

If the survey was done with land lines, I'd expect that to undercount the population that reads blogs, rather than overcount. Landlines are used more by people who are older.

Regarding the specific Pew study, I'm not sure, but is it the study mentioned here?