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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blogworldexpo.com/General-Information/Important-Statistics.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blogworldexpo.com/General-Information/Important-Statistics.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Over 57 million Americns read blogs. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blogworldexpo.com/General-Information/Important-Statistics.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">1.7 million American adults list making money as one of the reasons they blog.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blogworldexpo.com/General-Information/Important-Statistics.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">There are over 1.4 million new blog posts <A target="_blank" href="http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html">every day</A> . <BR /></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blogworldexpo.com/General-Information/Important-Statistics.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">over 120 thousand blogs are <A target="_blank" href="http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html">created every day</A> . <BR /></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; 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