BusinessWeek has a quick snapshot of U.S. user activities online broken down by task and ages. (The study was conducted by the Forrester Research group.)

The Birmingham Post, with the likes of Joanna on staff, continues to impress as a newspaper rapidly reshaping itself with social media.

Other journalists busy in the independent blogosphere are Joanna Geary from the Birmingham Post, BBC broadcast journalist and producer Robin Hamman, and Pat Thornton from America’s Stars and Stripes who blogs as the Journalism Iconoclast.

The Mirror Group’s websites reached 4.4 million unique users in March, its debut ABCe figure has confirmed. The figure combines traffic to Mirror.co.uk, SundayMirror.co.uk, People,co.uk, DailyRecord.co.uk and SundayMail.co.uk.