The State of the Blogosphere, April 2006

State of the Blogosphere

I wish this graph represented the performance of my investments.

Instead, it shows the number of blogs tracked by Technorati in the last 3 years as reported by Technorati founder, David Sifry, in his latests State of the Blogosphere (via Boingboing). The blogosphere according to Technorati (which is just part of the blog universe) is 60 times larger than in March 2003, with 34.5 million blogs.

This evaluation may be a little overinflated, though. Only 55% of the new blogs survive after 3 months, 11% post at least weekly (3.9 million), and spam blogs (and related techniques: sblogs, spings, and sporms, ah ah…) is on the rise.

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April 17, 2006 | Filed Under Blogging 

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2 Responses to “The State of the Blogosphere, April 2006”

  1. Joy on April 17th, 2006 7:05 pm

    Wow, those numbers are impressive Antonella. I’m not surprised though. I experience such a small corner of the blogosphere. It truly is amazing.

  2. Andrew Hinton on May 11th, 2006 12:26 pm

    A fascinating correlation: registrations at massively multiplayer online games show a similar curve.

    http://mmogchart.com/Chart4_files/Subscriptions_21524_image001.gif

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