Blog and Website Creation on the Rise
11 percent of U.S. web users have created web pages or blogs, and more than 120,000 blogs are created daily, with 58,000 new posts created each hour, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project and Technorati, which tracks some 94 million blogs around the world.

10% of U.S. Counties Home to Minority Majority
In nearly one of every 10 U.S. counties today (303 of 3,141 counties), more than half of the residents are ethnic minorities, according to a new report from the Census Bureau.

In the 12 months ended June 30, 2006, two more major counties passed the 50 percent mark: Denver County in Colorado and Baton Rouge Parish (the equivalent of a county) in Louisiana. Each has a total population of more than 400,000 residents.

According to the Census Bureau, Los Angeles County has some 7 million minority residents—71 percent of its population and one of every 14 minority residents in the nation.

Homeschooling Ranks Continuing to Grow
National Home Education Research Institute President Brian Ray says homeschooling may be the fastest-growing form of education in the U.S., increasing 7% to 12% per year. An estimated 1.9 to 2.4 million U.S. children in grades K-12 were home-schooled during 2005-06.