Monday, August 08, 2005
The Expanding Blogosphere:
"Published: August 08, 2005
(After August 16, 2005, this article will only be available to eStat Database subscribers.)
With a new blog being created every second, the blogosphere has doubled in size in just the last five months, according to a new report from Technorati.
In its 'State of the Blogosphere' report, Technorati tabulates 14.2 million weblogs, with over 1.3 billion links. This is just about double the number of blogs Technorati was tracking five months ago.
And a new blog is being added to the list at the rate of one every second, which translates into roughly 80,000 new weblogs every day.
Technorati reports that 55% of all blogs are active — updated within the last 3 months. In addition, 13% of all weblogs (currently 1.8 million blogs) are updated at least weekly.
Roughly 25% of Internet users have read a blog, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Meanwhile, Pew reports that some 9% of Internet users say they have created a blog.
Technorati says the average rate of postings has grown steadily and by the end of July 2005 there were about 900,000 posts created each day. That's some 37,500 posts every hour, or 10.4 posts per second.
Technorati founder Dave Sifry reports that blog posting is becoming more sophisticated. Nearly one-third of all posts are 'tagged' by topic, long a practice of electronic publishers as a way to organize huge amounts of information in a taxonomy. Tagging by individuals without a universal categorization system creates a 'folksonomy,' a new way to find relevant posts and blogs by theme.
'With the right tag search and navigation, folksonomy may outperform more structured approaches to classification,' Sifry says.
For a look at the ramifications of blogging for businesses, read eMarketer's The Business of Blogging."
"Published: August 08, 2005
(After August 16, 2005, this article will only be available to eStat Database subscribers.)
With a new blog being created every second, the blogosphere has doubled in size in just the last five months, according to a new report from Technorati.
In its 'State of the Blogosphere' report, Technorati tabulates 14.2 million weblogs, with over 1.3 billion links. This is just about double the number of blogs Technorati was tracking five months ago.
And a new blog is being added to the list at the rate of one every second, which translates into roughly 80,000 new weblogs every day.
Technorati reports that 55% of all blogs are active — updated within the last 3 months. In addition, 13% of all weblogs (currently 1.8 million blogs) are updated at least weekly.
Roughly 25% of Internet users have read a blog, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Meanwhile, Pew reports that some 9% of Internet users say they have created a blog.
Technorati says the average rate of postings has grown steadily and by the end of July 2005 there were about 900,000 posts created each day. That's some 37,500 posts every hour, or 10.4 posts per second.
Technorati founder Dave Sifry reports that blog posting is becoming more sophisticated. Nearly one-third of all posts are 'tagged' by topic, long a practice of electronic publishers as a way to organize huge amounts of information in a taxonomy. Tagging by individuals without a universal categorization system creates a 'folksonomy,' a new way to find relevant posts and blogs by theme.
'With the right tag search and navigation, folksonomy may outperform more structured approaches to classification,' Sifry says.
For a look at the ramifications of blogging for businesses, read eMarketer's The Business of Blogging."
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