Spreading Faster than Herpes…

As of the end of July 2005, Technorati was tracking
over 14.2 Million weblogs, and over 1.3 billion links. Interestingly,
this is just about double the number of blogs that we were tracking 5
months ago. In March 2005 we were tracking 7.8 million blogs, which means
the blogosphere has just about doubled again in the past 5 months, and
that the blogosphere continues to double about every 5.5 months.

MSN Spaces, Blogger, LiveJournal, AOL Journals, as well as a number of
international hosted services are growing quickly, and use of software
like WordPress and Movable Type to provide blogs continue to grow significantly.
There’s a growing number of WordPress-based hosted services that are arising,
including Laughing Squid, Dreamhost, and Blue Host, marking an interesting
trend – that of ISPs and hosting providers using the GPL’ed software as
a differentiating feature of their services. Moblogging sites like Textamerica
and Buzznet have also been growing as well, as more people are blogging
from their camera-enabled mobile phones. Growth has not only occurred in
the US, but there has been a lot of blog growth in Japan, Korea, China,
France, and Brazil, to name a few countries.

Summary:

• Technorati was tracking over 14.2 Million weblogs, and over 1.3 billion
  links in July 2005
• The blogosphere continues to double about every 5.5 months
• A new blog is created about every second, there are over 80,000 created
  daily
• About 55% of all blogs are active, and that has remained a consistent
  statistic for at least a year
• About 13% of all blogs are updated at least weekly

from the Technorati
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