An interesting piece in the New York Times reports:

“A survey conducted by Blogads.com, which administers online advertising on blog sites, and completed voluntarily by 30,000 blog visitors last spring, found that 5.1 percent of the people reading the blogs were lawyers or judges, putting that group fourth behind computer professionals, students and retirees. The survey also found that of the 6,232 people who said they also kept their own blogs, 6.1 percent said they were in the legal profession, putting lawyers fourth again, behind the 17.5 percent who said they were in the field of education, 15.1 percent in computer software and 6.4 percent in media.”

Henry Copeland, founder of Blogads, conceded that the survey was “hardly scientific” but undermined the popular image of the blogosphere as dominated by geeks.

It has to be said that these results do not reflect the position in the UK where lawyers seem reluctant to embrace the new medium.