Interesting summary of the state of quantitative knowledge about the blogosphere on a Telegraph blog: 27 per cent of UK internet users have their own blog, or 5 per cent do; 75 per cent of Britons have visited a blog, or 62 per cent have never visited a blog.
As ever, it is all in how you ask the question, and how you classify the answers. I for one would call MySpace sites and MSN Spaces blogs (although they can often be hard to navigate and link to).
On the subject of lies and damn statistics: Matthew Parris is trying to work out just how much power having appliances on standby uses. The short answer, on something that should be more quantifiable, is, that no one knows. Doesn’t means that you won’t still save yourself a bit of cash by switching things right off, however, but debates such as this would certainly benefit from a solid bit of basic research.
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