Bloggers: A portrait of the Internet's new storytellers

We were asked to respond to Bloggers: A portrait of the internet's new storytellers. These are a couple of quotes and ideas that struck me as I read this study.

Ok. So it's a bunch of stats here. Their margin of error was 6.7 plus/minus which is a pretty large margin of error and probably makes negligible the things I found interesting. An interesting stat in the table "Bloggers vs. Internet users in general" was that 19% of the bloggers in this survey were English speaking Latinos. On this same table, I was a bit surprised that urban and suburban people make up almost 90% of the blogger population. Is it because people in rural areas tend to be less educated? Have less internet access?


"Younger bloggers and those with lower levels of education are more likely than other groups to be inspired to post by entertainment media." That caught my eye. To think that people with less education were driven enough by entertainment to take the time and discuss whatever happened on tv. This make believe world seemed important enough to discuss to the less educated. It's ashamed given the opportunity to harness a medium of communication and this is all that was done with it. But on the other hand, maybe using the technology is learning enough.

"Three in four bloggers told us that expressing themselves creatively was a reason that they blog. Younger and lower income bloggers were more likely than other groups to give this as a reason to blog." Bringing voice to the voiceless is often heard when discussing alternative newspapers, radio stations, magazines. It's nice to see that this medium is directly doing just that, giving people that normally feel underrepresented, representation.

"Only a third of bloggers think their blogs is a form of journalism" Is journalism still a form of journalism? Or is it busy being propaganda?