Content creator

This morning I learned a new computer term to describe myself: Content Creator. The Sacramento Bee carried a short "filler" article which claimed that 57% of American teens "have a web page or blog or have posted pictures on the Web. The referenced source, the Pew Internet & American Life Project, elaborates with additional statistics. The survey report is 3 years old and in Internet terms that means a lot could have changed since then.

According to this report:

A mere 2% of Adult Internet users maintain Web diaries or Web blogs, according to respondents to this phone survey. In other phone surveys prior to this one, and one more recently fielded in early 2004, we have heard that between 2% and 7% of adult Internet users have created diaries or blogs. In this survey we found that 11% of Internet users have read the blogs or diaries of other Internet users. About a third of these blog visitors have posted material to the blog. Most of those who do contribute material are not constantly updating or freshening content. Rather, they occasionally add to the material they have posted, created, or shared.

I guess this confirms, yet again, that I'm an odd duck.