In summary: * Technorati is now tracking over 50 Million Blogs. * The Blogosphere is over 100 times bigger than it was just 3 years ago. * Today, the 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
I am amazed with the speed of growth. What will be the impact of blogs on our being and life?
I invite you to Sifry’s for a detailed view.
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But blogs are having a greater impact on French society, said Jean-Michel Billaut, an adviser on Internet issues to BNP Paribas, the huge banking group.
“The Minitel was a classic, centrally controlled and top-down creation of the French elite,†Mr. Billaut said. But blogs, since they are “embraced by ordinary people,†he said, “will flip the rigid power pyramid of French society.â€
As elsewhere, the grass-roots freedom of blogs is a problem for French companies as advocacy groups and skeptical consumers take strong views online, said Cyril Klein, marketing director of Scanblog, a blog-monitoring service in Paris.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/world/europe/30blogs.html?ex=1155268800&en=e0c8c118738444fe&ei=5070
I am keen to anticipate the impact of blogging on our future life. I recommend you to read Malcom Gladwell thereon and the comments he got. Quite enlighting!http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/2006/07/the_derivative_.html#comments
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