Behind the Blogosphere Numbers

WSJ.com stat guru Carl Bialik digs further into the reported numbers of blogs and blog readers. One important point he makes is that many of the reported 11 million blogs are either abandoned and more are private. He cites the number of daily postings as a stat to consider watching. Right now Technorati is seeing daily volume at 800,000 to 900,000 posts, while BlogPulse counts between 350,000 and 450,000 posts/day.

Still, to me this discussion, while fun, is kinda irrelevant. The fact that the media keep debating these numbers and citing blogs shows they are important. 'Nuf said.

Comments

[Gino Tocchetti]

I'm with you. Blogs are introducing a disruptive innovation in journalism: I'm not surprised if some people with interest based on the 'former' journalism model, starts moving against.

Btw, numbers in blogosphere are really a bet: depending on what sites, what sources, what checks you consider. Easily you can underestimate or overestimate.

[steven streight aka vaspersthegrate]

As you know by now, I think this WSJ article makes several errors and even untruths.

Why doesn't Carl provide a real definition of blog beyond "Web log" or "reverse chron order posts updated frequently". This is the Eaton Web minimal functional definition, which is inappropriate for clueless WSJ readers who still don't understand what a "blog" "is".

I hate the MSM. Nearly all of it and nearly every aspect of it. Television news especially, those negative gloom mongers.

But for the WSJ article to make ridiculous claims, without citing the "surveys" and the alleged studies is pathetic.

You've seen my post at Vaspers the Grate, so I won't belabor the points I made.

IMHO, shoddy "journalism" strikes again.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

:^0

Vaspers the Grrrrrrate