BlogWorld Expo, Planes and Terminal Five

Blogworld Expo, I'm not sure what they do there, those special folk that take blogging so very very seriously! But Seriously ...as Phil once said... The statistics on the webpage for the event are quite hard to argue with...

* Over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog. * More than 147 million Americans use the Internet. * Over 57 million Americns read blogs. * 1.7 million American adults list making money as one of the reasons they blog. * 89% of companies surveyed say they think blogs will be more important in the next five years. * 9% of internet users say they have created blogs . * 6% of the entire US adult population has created a blog . * Technorati is currently tracking over 70 million blogs . * over 120 thousand blogs are created every day . * There are over 1.4 million new blog posts every day . * 22 of the 100 most popular websites in the world are blogs . * 37% of blog readers began reading blogs in 2005 or 2006 . * 51% of blog readers shop online . * Blog readers average 23 hours online each week .

http://www.b5media.com/ Are a sponsor of this years event, of which my bro inlaw is a part - you can find more about him here http://www.problogger.net/ his name's Darren Rowse.. He's one of those folks that takes blogging seriously, and well he should - it's his job!..

Scotland, Glasgow to be precise... or, to be more precise, here....