Who are we?

The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a survey on the face of bloggers yesterday, which found that most bloggers are under 30 and blog to serve some personal desire; only about 15 percent of us start blogs to make money. Here's the Washington Post story.

More than half of bloggers are younger than 30, and a majority use their blogs as a mode of creative expression, the survey found. Money-making possibilities motivate only 15 percent of bloggers, and most blog on a variety of topics, with 11 percent focusing on politics.

And also.

They are also less likely to be white than the general Internet-using population, and more than half live in suburban areas, according to Pew.

This blog definitely speaks to the first part of that sentence.

The survey included services like LiveJournal--the most popular--and Xanga--where I recently found that a high school girlfriend married a dude serving in Iraq; to think I could have been that poor bastard--which got me thinking that maybe there's a schism in the blogosphere. One side blogging as a form of neojournalism, and the other blogging for the consumption of friends.

But while those two drives clearly exist, they often cohabitate the same blogger, and there's no good way to separate the two.