Dave Sifry on State of the Blogosphere, August 2006
Another three months have passed, and Sifry has updated his State of the Blogosphere report. Major findings:
- Technorati is tracking over 50M blogs
- The blogosphere is over 100 times larger than 3 years ago
- The blogosphere is doubling every 200 days -- slowing somewhat
- As of July, 175,000 new blogs were created every day
- 70% of pings received by Technorati are from known spammers and are blocked
- Postings continue to rise, growing to about 1.6M postings per day, about double the numbers from last year
- 11 of the top 90 media web sites (measured by links to them) are blogs
- English is currently the #1 language of the blogosphere (or is it Globish?), but not by much: 41% English, 31% Japanese, and 10% Chinese.
As Dave points out, the feverish growth of the blogosphere cannot continue indefinitely: there has to be a natural maturation to the trend, simply because there are limits on the number of people in the world. But it looks like we haven't hit those limits yet, and with more people in China coming online, we may have a while to go before moving into the flat part of the adoption curve.
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