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March 1, 2004

the latest pew internet study

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The size of citi­zens’ media, from Jeff Jar­vis:: “The latest Pew Inter­net study starts to reveal the size of the gro­wing citi­zens’ media move­ment.
Pew says that 44 per­cent of Ame­ri­cans — more than 53 million adults — have “used the Inter­net to publish their thoughts, res­pond to others, post pic­tu­res, share files and other­wise con­tri­bute to the explo­sion of con­tent avai­la­ble online.“
: 21% of Inter­net users say they have pos­ted pho­to­graphs to Web sites.
: 17% have pos­ted writ­ten mate­rial on Web sites.
: 13% main­tain their own Web sites…“
The more the blo­gosphere grows, the more peo­ple see my car­toons… so obvioiusly any kind of major growth stat gets my enthu­siasm.
No, I don’t think blogs etc. will put jour­na­lism and big media out of busi­ness. Howe­ver they will make peo­ple a lot more picky about the type of con­tent they’re willing to pay cash for. Which will make the publishing and media biz a lot less fun and luc­ra­tive for a lot of hacks.

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