state of the blogosphere

Blogs tags the whole web2.0 phenomena heres a report compiled from Technorati that will make you think.



http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2007/04/06/blog_usage_statistics_and_trends.htmn summary:



here's a few headlines that are worth reflecting on:-

• The blogosphere is now 70 million weblogs wide



• About 120,000 new weblogs are created each day, or...



• 1.5 million posts per day



• 1.4 new blogs are created every second



• 17 posts are made every second

Cumulative number of weblogs - Technorati

Spam

• 3000-7000 new splogs (fake, or spam blogs) created every day



• Peak of 11,000 splogs per day last December

Growth

• Growing from 35 to 75 million blogs took 320 days

Blogs vs. MSM

• From 11 to 22 blogs among the top sources linked to in Q4 2006

The multi-lingual web

• Japanese the #1 blogging language at 37%



• English second at 33%



• Chinese third at 8%



• Italian fourth at 3%



• Farsi a newcomer in the top 10 at 1%

Tags Stats

• Tracking 230 million posts with tags or categories



• 35% of all February 2007 posts used tags



• 2.5 million blogs posted at least one tagged post in February