Not the usual type of post from me, but these blog statistics I just read really blew my mind…
As of April 2007, Technorati via David Sifry’s The State of the Blogosphere, shows over 72 million blogs being tracked and over 120 thousand blogs being created everyday. 1.2 million new blogs and 14 million new posts in a matter of 10 days.
Who are these bloggers, what are they writing about, how much is repeat content and how many of them have other blogs? There are no easy answers but one thing is for certain. With the increased spread of broadband connections, increased population, and the unwavering pursuit of ______ (belonging/happiness/money aka fill in the blank) are crucial factors in this constant surge of webloggery. Anyone can blog, so they blog.
What is the future of the Internet when it comes to blogging?
No one can say for certain, but I speculate that blog directories will become the next big web application if they can aggregate ALL information on any given subject from ALL websites (not just weblogs) in an encyclopedic type of entry. Essentially turning everyone into a contributor of this dynamic web book of knowledge.
Understanding how this is all going to take place in no easy task, but it is inevitable. Are you ready?
Blog Stats (April 2007)
- 70 million weblogs
- About 120,000 new weblogs each day, or…
- 1.4 new blogs every second
- 3000-7000 new splogs (fake, or spam blogs) created every day
- Peak of 11,000 splogs per day last December
- 1.5 million posts per day, or…
- 17 posts per second
- Growing from 35 to 75 million blogs took 320 days
- 22 blogs among the top 100 blogs among the top 100 sources linked to in Q4 2006 - up from 12 in the prior quarter
- Japanese the #1 blogging language at 37%
- English second at 33%
- Chinese third at 8%
- Italian fourth at 3%
- Farsi a newcomer in the top 10 at 1%
- English the most even in postings around-the-clock
- Tracking 230 million posts with tags or categories
- 35% of all February 2007 posts used tags
- 2.5 million blogs posted at least one tagged post in February
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wow*
thass Mind Boggling #’s*
It’s even impossible to Keep up with yer 50 or a Hundred current Friendz on MyBlogLog or BlogCatalog*
;))
Yeah whoever Organizes this into some sort of Manageable Searchable Directory will have something!!
Great Post Kat*
Peace*
Reply to BillyWarholIt’s an amazing statistic. Looks like the trend has really caught up in Japan!
Reply to alanbernardWow, kind of slap in the face what’s happening with blogging.
Reply to RobbieWhat will happen in a couple of years? Let’s wait and see.
wowwwwwww. . .
Reply to craigDeja Vu*
Reply to BillyWarholThis just points to the validity of the ‘internet-as-global-village’ concept. As people become able to ‘chat over the backyard fence’, they are doing just that.
Sure beats ‘internet-as-mass-mindless-pap’, eh?
120,000 new blogs a day indicates that a lot of people have a lot on their minds and are willing to commit those thoughts to print. Makes me feel a lot better over my small share of the worldwide readership (~1,500 unique for June). As people gain skills in multiple languages, look for a sort of ‘organic Esperanto’ to emerge. This composite language will blur many of the nationalistic dividing lines.
Won’t that be nice!
Reply to BillinDetroit