The blogosphere by numbers

• 200 Million: Approximate number of US Internet users
• 12%: The proportino of US Internet users that have a blog (24 Million)
• 18%: The proportion of US Internet users that read blogs (36 Million)
• 38%: The proportion of US Internet users that have heard about blogs
  
• 72.5%: THe proportion of people in Japan that have heard of blogs
• 4 Million: The average number of readers that drop into Glen Reynolds' blog, Instapundit.com
• 1.5 Million: The average number of readers that drop into houstonchronicle.com
  

*(US Figures from Pew Research Lab, Japanese figures from Internet Association Japan)*