clipped from: www.blogworldexpo.com   
  • Over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog.
  • Over 57 million Americns read blogs.
  • 1.7 million American adults list making money as one of the reasons they blog.
  • 89% of companies surveyed say they think blogs will be more important in the next five years.
  • More than 147 million Americans use the Internet.
  • Blog readers average 23 hours online each week . 
  • 51% of blog readers shop online .
  • 22 of the 100 most popular websites in the world are blogs .
  • 37% of blog readers began reading blogs in 2005 or 2006 .
  • There are over 1.4 million new blog posts every day .
  • over 120 thousand blogs are created every day .
  • Technorati is currently tracking over 70 million blogs .
  • 6% of the entire US adult population has created a blog .
  • 9% of internet users say they have created blogs .