Time wasters of the new century

Get back to work!
This, quoted from an item in Advertising Age:

U.S. workers in 2005 will waste the equivalent of 551,000 years* reading blogs. About 35 million workers -- one in four people in the labor force -- visit blogs and on average spend 3.5 hours, or 9%, of the work week engaged with them.

(*emphasis added)

Of course Canadians are so much more sensible.