According to figures recently released by Pew Internet & American Life Project, 58% more Americans flocked to Blogs – or Weblogs – last year to inform themselves on current events and political issues compared with 2003.
The report from Pew said: "At least some of the overall growth in blog readership is attributable to political blogs. Some 9 percent of Internet users said they read political blogs 'frequently' or 'sometimes' during the campaign."
The creation and monitoring of Blogs grew significantly throughout 2004 – despite the fact that only 38% of US Internet surfers could define or explain what a Blog was. 60% of the US’ 8 million surfers could not.
