UPDATE on the Blogosphere diversity conversation … Debbie Weil just posted this … a link to the latest “blogads” readers survey. It shows their readership is 75/25 male/female. They did not ask race/ethnicity of their readers. Sorry.
Still, this survey has some interesting stats on various demo groups like age, sex, income, job title/industry, media choices, reading habits, podcasts and much more.
Visit Blog reader survey March 2005.
Special care should be taken as to ‘not’ take these stats and apply them to the entire blogging community/world. I would …

PHILIP TERZIAN: An anchor hits bottom
Salient point: “Competition pushes journalism – like any product – to higher standards.”
The Providence Journal
Last Updated: November 29, 2004, 12:01:00 PM PST
(SH) – As any professor of journalism will tell you, television was once expected to put newspapers out of business. That didn’t happen (for which I am duly thankful), but it certainly thinned the herd of afternoon papers.

CBS News | Blogging As Typing, Not Journalism
November 8, 2004 – 15:30:22
by Eric Engberg (CBS)
Eric Engberg was a correspondent for CBS News in Washington prior to his retirement two years ago.
I don’t begrudge these knights of the blog-table their grandiose dreams. But I worked on a school paper when I was a kid and I owned a CB radio when I lived in Texas. And what I saw in the blogosphere on Nov. 2 was more reminiscent of that school paper or a “Breaker, breaker 19″ gabfest on …

We learn of a new search portal with ‘clustering’ of results from various sources (some quite inventive) via Rexblog.com from Rex Hammock:
rexblog.com: Rex Hammock’s Weblog
Search for the rest of us clowns: Clusty, which has nothing to do with a character on the Simpsons, is a new consumer search offering from Vivismo, the NYT’s John Markoff reports (“New company starts up a challenge to Google”):
The new Clusty service for consumers, which will be free and supported by advertising revenue, uses a similar organizational structure. But it also …