Caveat Emptor: Blog Glut

I was away on an assignment and did not have time to type in a few lines of babble. It still is surprising how easily you can become a member of a large group of individuals who take to typing away on a terminal, publishing for a larger audience without proof reading or for that matter, even without a fair idea about journalism. Maybe that is why you get so many blogs left half baked, which could easily include mine, on the net waiting to rot. It is the seeming ease of entry which makes for so many drop outs, maybe even the lack of rigour in entry, like a dozen papers to pass and a thesis to prepare. Funny how access to a certain halo results in more people turing away from it than higher participation. It would be interesting to find out the percentages of drop outs in an activity or club where there is the said rigour against that which requires almost nothing to get in. It is also worth finding out who are these individuals forming this large mass suddenly found squatting in cyberspace, here are some numbers for the curious ones. Like everything else about statistics, do not ask where the numbers came from or whether the weighted mean has been used where data was missing or whatever.

Global demographics