The Post has got a short piece about who the typical blogger is. Let’s see how well I match up with the profile.

  • Typical Blogger
  • Me
  • Younger than 30
  • Nope, not by a long shot
  • Does not blog for the money-making possibilities
  • First one that I fit
  • Blogs on a variety of topics
  • That would be me.
  • Only 11 percent focusing on politics
  • I guess I fit in here since politics is only part of what I post about.
  • Are less likely to be white
  • No, I am as white as a man can get.
  • They are not out to change the world.
  • My job is to change the world, my blog is not my job.
  • To keep in touch with friends and family
  • Not me since 80% of my family and friends don’t know about the blog.
  • There are only about 10,000 blogs that have an audience beyond their friends and families
  • About half of my ‘audience’ are people that I have never met before. So that rules me out here.
  • Most maintain their blogs for themselves, not for their audience
  • That fits, but I do take requests.
  • See blogging as a form of journalism
  • Uh, no.
  • The average blogger is a 14-year-old girl writing about her cat,
  • No. I don’t have a cat.

That would six times that I don’t fit the profile to five times that I do. Like most other surveys that attempt to lump people into pre-set molds, there is nothing new here. I guess we all have our reasons to do this and none of us are going to fit neatly into a grouping.

The biggest thing to take away from this is that people are finding ways to communicate, but most are still not really saying anything important. Which is proven by the fact that there are nearly 49 million blogs out there and only 10,000 are really attracting readers.