Pew has published some research on bloggers that has gathered much news comment. Scott Karp also has some observations.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle: "A popular notion about bloggers is that they're pajama-wearing partisan ranters living in Mommy's basement. There they wile away their under-employed time obsessing about the latest Connecticut Senate race poll, while fancying themselves a new type of journalist, independent of government's influence and free to make up facts."

"The reality of the blogosphere is a lot less partisan, a lot more diverse and nearly half female, according to a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project."

That's good to know. Now I can feel better about my habit. Here's the research report .