Sifry: Blog Growth Remains Strong
David Sifry from Technorati reports on the State of the Blogosphere:
* The blogosphere is over 60 times bigger than it was only 3 years ago.
* 75,000 new weblogs created every day
* 19.4 million bloggers (55%) are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created
* Original content greatly outweighs the fake or duplicate content listed on spam blogs
* Daily Posting Volume tracked by Technorati is now over 1.2 Million posts per day
OK, cool. But what about MySpace? The MySpace blogs do not seem to be part of these figures. The growth would be higher.
Hey, Steve. Hope all is well. Something may be up with your feed -- every day I receive all your posts since April 12. Take care.
Posted by: Paul Walker | Monday, April 17, 2006 at 10:59 AM
It would be higher but not as much as one might expect. Most MySpace profiles don't even have blogs.
Posted by: Greg | Monday, April 17, 2006 at 12:31 PM
Most myspace blogs do ping weblogs.com (around 10% of them are from that domain), quite evident from fresh pings listed on the weblogs.com home-page. Since almost all blog search engines use this data, I think they are part of the numbers and contributing to the reported growth in a big way.
Posted by: Pranam Kolari | Monday, April 17, 2006 at 02:46 PM
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't the MySpace posts have a disclaimer on them?
Thought MySpace is a client of Edelman?
Posted by: Stephen | Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 09:21 AM
Stephen, you are correct. Where appropriate I will note this going forward. This was one such instance.
Posted by: Steve Rubel | Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 05:01 PM