August 7th, 2006
The Blogosphere, Technorati-style
If you haven’t already read August 2006’s State of the Blogosphere report (or have no intention to), here’s a short summary:
- T’rati hit 50 million tracked blogs in July 2006, a whole 34% more than in the last State of the Blogosphere report in April. This means that the blogosphere is now 100 times larger than it was 3 years ago.
- Every 200 days, the blogosphere doubles. It’s taking sightly longer than when assessed 3 months ago (180 days), but it’s still a rate of growth that surpasses even Moore’s Law - by a mile I might add.
- 2 blogs per second. That’s 175,000 blogs each day created. And considering that 70% of all pings to T’rati are from spam blogs (which are filtered from being indexed though), you can imagine how many spam blogs are being created per second. 3? 4?
- Surprisingly, English has returned to being the Blogosphere’s top language - with 34% of all postings. But it only narrowly edges out Japanese (33%), which was the leader months before this.
But while everyone is going ga-ga over the growth in the number of blogs, let’s not forget that blogs are two-way things. We’re going to need more, more, more, and more readers to feed our growing monstrosphere - something that doesn’t seem to be happening fast enough.
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August 25th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
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