Study says: Bloggers make good neighbors.

I like many of you reading these words are geeks. More specifically a tech/geek blogger. How geeky we are varies from person to person. But me, given the chance, (and a nice new Core i7 27″ iMac) I’d live in front of my computer. It’s not hard really. The sun is the same as it was thousands of years ago and will continue to be. If I really wanted some fresh air I can always open a window. Taking it to the nth degree, I could always rip up the hardwood in my house and put down some sod to give it that eco/green feel. In all honesty, I get out quite a bit. But the point is, tech bloggers such as myself often get stereotyped as lazy, house dwelling folks who really don’t know what the outside looks like, how to swing a bat etc. Would you believe that we bloggers are actually pretty darn good neighbors? So says a new study by Pew Internet Project.

It turns out that bloggers, if “good”, are actually more chipper than there less talkative counterparts. On one hand this seems startling given how much time we stare at pixels on a screen. On the other, you have to like hearing yourself talk (and think) if you’re to be a blogger — it comes with the job. If you can talk to yourself for ours and provoke deep thoughts and good ‘ol conversation, chances are you could be a pretty decent blogger…

Shocker: Americans play more games than everyone else.

Do you sit around at night wondering which country has the highest population of gamers? I’m sure you don’t. But, just in case you were, the handy graph above shows what many assumed to begin with — that America is full of gamers. Now, according to a survey conducted by Today Gamers, a whopping 87% of Americans play video games. TThe UK, Germany, and France fall behind with 74%, 67%, and 66% respectively. So I ask: Do the numbers shock you? Or are the results what you were expecting? It’s worth noting that for the U.S. anyway, that winning percentage translates into roughly 11.5 hours of gaming per week with MMO games taking the top priority — which I may enlighten you aren’t quite the talk of the town in other gaming lands. Why’s that? Not sure. Guess a foreign gamer will have to enlighten us…

**Since the survey was conducted online, we have to remember that this isn’t extremely accurate as many gamers don’t have access to the internet. Although, I would assume that within the last couple of years with the cloud and digital this and that, that gamers have made the move to online in at least some form.

Joystiq