Interesting sneak preview of a new survey of the European and Asian blogosphere on Richard Edelman's blog:
Blogs Matter and We Have Data to Prove It.
Prominent bloggers do influence mainstream media.
Jill links to a new survey by Pew Internet and points to a nice commentary on it by Danah Boyd: As Danah points out amongst other things is that the survey shows what I think many working in the field suspect or already know from their own smaller studies:
teenagers use social software to maintain existing friendships (91%), rather than to make new friends (49%).
# posted by Lisbeth at: 16:53