Dave Sifry over at Technorati is doing some numbers crunching this week, and the latest update notes that 80,000 blogs are being created each day. That’s one a second. Every 5.5 months, the blogosphere doubles, meaning that right now they are tracking somewhere in the neighborhood of 14 million blogs. By 2006, it should be over 20 million. Most interesting to me is that 13% of blogs are updated at least weekly, which means there are somewhere around 1.5 million of us writing publicly on a regular basis. If the trends continue, that will mean 6 million a year from now. Even if that trend slows a bit, in two years, we should be close to 20 million. Cool.
Tomorrow, Dave is posting the number of posts being created each day, and later in the week, he’ll be talking about blog spam, tagging and more. I’m sure there will be much more to note. Bottom line, this “fad” ain’t going away any time soon…
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