IP Democracy: Sifry: Blog Explosion Continues

Technorati’s Dave Sifry has issued his latest State of the Blogosphere report and the numbers are staggering.

*Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs.

*The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months.

*It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago.

*On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day.

*13.7 million bloggers are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created.

*Spings (Spam Pings) can sometimes account for as much as 60% of the total daily pings Technorati receives.

*Sophisticated spam management tools eliminate the spings and find that about 9% of new blogs are spam or machine generated.

*Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour.

*Over 81 Million posts with tags since January 2005, increasing by 400,000 per day.

*Blog Finder has over 850,000 blogs, and over 2,500 popular categories have attracted a critical mass of topical bloggers.

The 50,000 blog posts per hour is the first stat that caught my eye. At that rate, it’s no wonder that the next big thing in the blogosphere is the rise of content aggregation services such as Techmemeorandum. Without blog aggregation services, the blogosphere will clearly degenerate into a cacophony of impossible-to-track voices.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on February 6, 2006 11:26 AM to IP Democracy