Posted by Chris Knudsen on May 15th, 2006
Every quarter Dave Sifry at Technorati posts The State of the Blogosphere report. You need to be reading this quarterly post - especially if you are a Provo Labs or 10Speed Media employee. Here are some of the highlights:
Technorati now tracks over 37.3 Million blogs
The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 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
19.4 million bloggers (55%) are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created
Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour
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WOW! Be sure to catch part 2 of the report, which talks about international growth. Here’s a summary:
The blogosphere is multilingual and deeply international.Â
English, while being the language of the majority of early bloggers, has fallen to less than a third of all blog posts in April 2006.
Japanese and Chinese language blogging has grown significantly.
Chinese language blogging, while continuing to grow on an absolute basis, has begun to decline as an overall percentage of the posts that Technorati tracks over the last 6 months
Japanese, Chinese, English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and German are the languages with the greatest number of posts tracked by Technorati.
Language breakdown does not necessarily imply a particular country or regional breakdown.
Technorati now tracks more than 100 Million author-created tags and categories on blog posts.
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When I look at the models for blogging that we are creating at 10Speed Media, I get very excited. The opportunity is amazing. We are on the forefront of something huge and I plan to ride the tidal wave. I look forward to having you along for the ride!
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