Did you know that Austin’s bloggers rock? 

I set twitter to “track austin” which means it’ll notify me of any “tweets” that contain the word “Austin”.  It’s another one of those cool things twitter can do - keep up to date on specific topics, cities, things, people, etc.  I choose to get it sent to my AIM client instead of a ton of SMS messages, so it’s pretty passive.

I’ve seen some interesting stuff so far.  Here’s a little screenshot of what it looks like from AIM (Trillian)

As you can see from the topmost tweet - one of the items that popped up was a blog entry posting about Austin’s bloggers from a local blogger named Alex Jones.  (Note to self: check out twitterwhere… that sounds cool)

The article points to a Wired article about a new report from Scarborough about how Austin leads the pack in terms of percentage of people who read or write blogs.  We’re #1!  With 15% of residents either writing or commenting on blogs, Austin shows it’s got the technologically-enabled folks.  That number really does seem high when I think about it - that’s 1 in 6, right?  I would have thought half of that as the maximum to expect, so I’m pleasantly surprised.

I wish the report gave more detail on how many people they surveyed, what the responses were like, what the questions were, etc.  I just inherently distrust surveys that don’t disclose EVERYTHING.  Anything can be twisted and would rather have the facts so I can twist them myself.