Mapping the Diversity of the Blogosphere

A few weeks ago I was invited to participate in a survey on the diversity of niche bloggers. The results of the survey appear at Mapping the Diversity of the Blogosphere: A Bloggasm Case Study. Interesting stuff. Here’s a sampling of the results: The Blogosphere as a whole: (These are the results if you add all the niches together)

Male: 74% Female: 26% *** White/Caucasian/European: 73% Black/African: 9% Asian: 10% Middle Eastern/Arab: 1% Latino/Hispanic: 6% Native American: 1%

Law/Legal Blogs:

Male: 74% Female: 26% *** White/Caucasian/European: 94% Latino/Hispanic: 6%

Interesting that both categories show an identical ratio of male to female – 3 to 1. I wonder how many other law library bloggers were surveyed. Given that librarianship is a female dominated profession, I suspect that many – at least half? – of law library bloggers are women. The author finds that the only niches where females outnumbered males were Sex Blogs, Gossip/Fashion Blogs, Feminist Blogs, and Food Blogs. The first category comes as a surprise to me.