How many people read blogs and use RSS?
6% of US Internet users read blogs, 2% use RSS.
IT Facts / ZDNet.com
Sept. 5, 2005.
Ok, here is the caveat to the headline. The study,
The State Of Consumer Technology Adoption
by Forrester Research, evidently only counts
“online consumers.” The summary of the report
is available for free but does not reveal much about its methodology except to note that it was a survey of
more than 68,000 households.
Other statistics from the summary:
Households with a laptop and home network watch three fewer hours of TV per week and read the paper an hour less per week than offline households do.