I discovered that my old mate David Muir has been using Doggie’s Breakfast as an example of the usefulness of blogging for learning. Kind of wierd to be examined as a specimen, but OK.
Moving on, I followed a link on his blog to David Sifry, the founder of Technorati, where he has a post on the State of the Blogosphere, February 2006 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth. Kind of interesting, if you like that sort of thing.
Here’s his conclusion:
- 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 one that I thought was the most stunning was: “On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day“. Incredible!
Oh! Should have added that someone spoke to me after the presentation to ask if you knew that people were calling podcasts of sermons Godcasts. So, consider yourself asked. 🙂
No! Godcasts? Sounds awful…