Found via Wonkette:

“It’s mostly white. More male than female,” says the former high school math and science teacher turned activist. “It’s not very diverse.”

There goes the open secret of the netroots, or those who make up the community of the Internet grass-roots movement.

For all the talk about the increasing influence of this growing group — “We are a community . . . a movement . . . an institution,” Cooper said in a speech Saturday night — what gets scant attention is its demography. While the Huffington Post and Fire Dog Lake, both founded by women, are two of the most widely read blogs, the rock stars are mostly men, and many women bloggers complain of sexism and harassment in the blogosphere.

Read more at: Washington Post

It is an interesting note simply because so many who talk of the online “revolution” talk about it in terms of progressive politics and diversity. Though as someone who is close with the IT & computer science world the majority of the people in those fields are either white males or Asian males. So it is not a surprise to see the blogosphere skewing in one direction. Especially keeping in mind Asian Americans make up a little over 4% of the population. Note African Americans makeup 14% of the population but are grossly underrepresented in the math/science/technology/engineering fields as are woman who actually makeup more than 50% of the population.

(Note to readers, I myself am a white male.)