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Almost Half of Internet Users are Writers, Not Just Readers

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February 29, 2004

Almost Half of Internet Users are Writers, Not Just Readers • posted by Dan Gillmor 05:26 PM• permanent link to this item

A new report from the Pew Internet Project says that "44% of U.S. Internet users have contributed their thoughts and their files to the online world."

Relatively little of this is blogging, and that's just fine. What's important about this report is the basic theme: People are becoming writers on the Net, not only readers from it.

Content, in other words, is as much about what we do for ourselves as what Hollywood tries to sell us.

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