世論 What Japan Thinks

japan.internet.com recently reported on goo Research’s 12th regular monthly survey into RSS issues. 1,062 people from their monitor group, 51.6% female, completed the private internet-based poll. 1.7% of the sample was in thier teens, 20.6% in their twenties, 40.8% in their thirties, 23.1% in their forties, 10.2% in their fifties, and 3.7% aged sixty or older.

For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of RSS, the BBC has a simple introduction to what it is and why you may want to use it. I know from looking at my own statistics, I probably have as many, if not more, readers through my RSS feed than by bookmark referers and possibly even visitors through links from other sites, although both are beaten by people coming in through search engines.

One big selling point for RSS and web-based services like Bloglines is that I can keep perfectly up to date across multiple machines.

Q1: Which of the following internet-related tools or services are you currently using or have used? (Sample size=1,062, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Browser toolbar	799	75.2%
IP telephone	390	36.7%
Search internet from desktop	356	33.5%
Alert service	251	23.6%
RSS reader	184	17.3%
None of the above	74	7.0%

Also quoted was that awareness of RSS finally surpassed a third of the population; this time 34.8% knew about it, but as can be seen above, just a half of those have actually tried using one. In addition, 153 people were currently using RSS readers, so the following questions were directed to this small sample.

Q2: Since starting using an RSS reader, how has the total number of sites you view changed? (Sample size=153)

Increased	34.6%
Decreased	5.9%
Not changed	59.5%

23.5% said they often visit the original site in addition to the RSS feed, while 58.2% only occasionally.

Q3: How long have you been using an RSS reader? (Sample size=153)

	Votes	Percentage
Up to 3 months	20	13.1%
3-6 months	24	15.7%
6 months to 1 year	67	43.8%
1 to 1.5 years	22	14.4%
1.5 to 2 years	11	7.2%
Over two years	9	5.9%