Ceri Bradford: Battle of the blogging sexes?

I normally roll my eyes at anything that smacks of the ”˜Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus’ vibe, but this post about gender differences in the blogosphere caught my attention.

According to Alex Iskold’s research, men dominate the top 20 blogs tracked by Technorati, which tend to focus on technology, while women blog more about books and family than men.

The results are hardly surprising ”“ the blogosphere is bound to reflect pre-existing interests, which are bound to reflect pre-existing cultural factors – but do they matter?

Read it all.

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