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Dave Sifry issued his self proclaimed state of the blogosphere this week which documented the usual explosive growth of the blogosphere:
- Technorati is now tracking over 50 Million Blogs.
- The Blogosphere is over 100 times bigger than it was just 3 years ago.
- Blogosphere is doubling in size every 200 days, or about once every 6 and a half months.
- From January 2004 until July 2006, the number of blogs that Technorati tracks has continued to double every 5-7 months.
- About 175,000 new weblogs were created each day, which means that on average, there are more than 2 blogs created each second of each day.
- About 8% of new blogs get past Technorati's filters, even if it is only for a few hours or days.
- About 70% of the pings Technorati receives are from known spam sources, but we drop them before we have to send out a spider to go and index the splog.
- Total posting volume of the blogosphere continues to rise, showing about 1.6 Million postings per day, or about 18.6 posts per second.
- This is about double the volume of about a year ago.
- The most prevalent times for English-language posting is between the hours of 10AM and 2PM Pacific time, with an additional spike at around 5PM Pacific time
Well, D'log references a study called Characterizing the Splogosphere that indicates that in mid 2005 while Sifry's data showed there were 14 million blogs, that after filtering out "not really blogs" there were really about 500,000 suggesting a ration of " 28:1 between fluff and real blogs" or 2mm versus 50 million in August of 2006. Spam, junk, content stealing aggregator blogs, and one time wonders all seem to go into the cumulative Technorati total blog count and stay, unlike personal link counts (mine for instance) that seem to mysteriously disappear or are sporadically undated.
As BL Ochman writes, It's hard to take it seriously when Technorati doesn't actually deliver on its stated mission of tracking blog posts and traffic in real time. My blog links seem to be updated less than twice a week, and I know I'm not alone.
But, do these numbers that are too large to comprehend mean anything? I think to talk about the State of the Blogosphere we need to ask, which blogosphere? And/or look at MySpace, Blogher, Ned Lamont, YouTube.........
Tags: Technorati, Sifry, D'Log, BL Ochman, MySpace, Ned Lamont, YouTube, Media, Social Media, Blogs, Spam
Marianne Richmond also blogs at Resonance Partnership.
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