As Weblogs continue their lazy progress across the Internet there has been a lot of new research appearing that looks at the number of blogs or weblogs and what the biggest new trends are.
These research reports are interesting, though not something I’d hang a business plan on.
But what’s more interesting is actual numbers. Rather than taking a sample and extrapolating the Internet, there are some interesting stats emerging that are based on actual numbers.
David Sifry is the brains and the brawn behind Technorati – the web service that allows you to track the hot topics being covered in blogs and more importantly for bloggers the sites that are linking to your content.
Anyhow, David has some really interesting statistics on blog growth:
- November 2002: Technorati was adding 2,000 – 3,000 new blogs a day
- March 2003: That figure had grown to 4,000 – 5,000 new blogs per day
- November 2003: Technorati is adding 8,000 – 9,000 new blogs daily
- They are currently tracking in excess of 1.2 million weblogs (1,229,516 to be precise)
- Based on their figures a new weblog is created every 11 seconds and a weblog is updated every 0.86 seconds
Now that’s growth!
[Link courtesy of Boing Boing]
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