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You missed two blogging Fields medalists.
Ngo Bao Chau (with appropriate accent marks) has a blog. It is in Vietnamese, because he is Vietnamese. http://thichhoctoan.net/ I don't know how much he writes about math because I don't read Vietnamese. I know he writes a lot about politics, or at least used to.
Cedric Villani writes about math for Le Monde sometimes and has a blog on his website. http://cedricvillani.org/ I am not good at French, so I don't read it.
I think 10% for living Fields medalists who blog is pretty high, and many of those living are older. (And two have basically withdrawn from mathematical society.)
Thanks for pointing these out, which I had not seen before.
Neither blog seems to have almost any mathematical content, and the posts seem few and far between, so I don't think that they budge the bottom line. Even in the case of Gowers, the average number of mathematical posts is about one a month.
Also, the category "Fields Medalists" is in some sense cherry-picked, in that it happens to include Gowers and Tao in particular: if one broadens consideration to all of the prizes that I listed, the fraction of bloggers is much smaller (though the winners of the other prizes also tend to be older).