Blogosphere doubling in size every six months. According to Technorati, they are tracking 34.5 million blogs. Back when I started blogging, blogging wasn’t even a word and back when I moved to b2/WordPress in August 2003, there was barely 1 million blogs. Crazy, huh? [via]
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3 responses to “Blogosphere Doubling In Size Every Six Months”
I read somewhere a few months ago, that even though blogging is booming, that most people abandon them after about 5 months. So, if you have been going longer than that, I guess you are in the clear! I would guess that many of those large numbers from Technorati are those abandoners.
And google toolbar spell check STILL doesn’t think blogging is a word; um, don’t they own blogger? I’m just saying.
I also wonder how many of those 34.5 million blogs are automated spamblogs, given how rife blogger and blogspot is with them, I’d guess a surprisingly high amount.
The scary thing is that technorati don’t track MSN and Livejournal ‘blogs’. I’d say the number is easily triple that.
And equally a high proportion will be nonsense blogs, or ones that die soon after ‘birth’.
My own indicator, Scottish Blogs, matches technorati though. With the number of new blogs each week steadily rising.