the world, or part of it

On February 6th, technorati posted its newest results on the current state of the blogosphere. Then on the 14th, the second part of their findings was published on their site. The results are shocking. The illustration shows that since March of 2003, the number of blogs on the Internet have doubled four times. I know personally that this cant be too far fetched because in the past two years, I have created five different weblogs. Along with this one, I regularly post on one other, so it shows that it is so easy to create, and forget about, blogs in minutes.

According to technorati, there are 50,000 blog updates every hour and 1.2 million posts a day. The rate currently holds that a new blog is created each second and the current blogosphere is sixty times larger than it was three years ago. Weblogs are even starting to edge out mainstream media sites when they look for their news. You can see the usual suspects when it comes to the latest news on top. The New York Times, CNN, and The Washington Post top the list, but when you look a little further down, you’ll see that there is a change in tide. Popular blogs like Boing Boing and Engadget are showing up on the list and their counterparts are only going to show up more.

For a more detailed summary, check out “State of the Blogosphere” part one and part two on technorati.