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Year of the blog

From CNET News: 2004 was the year of the blog, but only 38% of Internet users know what the word means, according to study called ?State of Blogging? released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Nevertheless, online journals? popularity soared: 32 million Internet users now say they read blogs. And more users are becoming authors. By the end of the year, 7% of U.S. adults had written a blog, according to the survey.