The Blog Explosion
I was just over at Technorati and noticed the "weblogs watched" count went over 400,000 today (it's at exactly 400,091 right now). It was only March 5 when the 100,000 mark was passed. At this rate, there will be more than 6 million blogs by the end of the year.
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Good observation!
A few cautions... These aren't new blogs, just new to Technorati. Sifry is rapidly discovering the extent of the blogosphere. I expect Technorati's growth to accellerate until the blogosphere is mostly mapped; then we'll see periodic bursts as new clusters are discovered or services come online; then Technorati will closely mirror the public and connected blogspace. T and the other metablog services can't see behind firewalls and there are blogs that have yet to be linked to by other bloggers, making them hard to detect. There may also be gaps in reaching into the non-western language blog clusters; relatively few ties from English language blogs. The blogosphere is growing fast, but not quite that fast... yet.
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I always wonder when fads peak, stabilize, or decline. Blogs are certainly on the upswing, but will there eventually be 1 person out of 20 in the world blogging, 1 in 5 in the US? Or will it falter?
Remember when home pages were there rage -- everyone would have one. Many spent hours and days putting them together. Many of those sites still read "Last updated 1997."
One of the big consumer dotcom pushes was an easier way to create Web sites with templates and Web-based forms. It's worked to a reasonable degree. Blogging is the ultimate outcome of that in that it's so much about content, not about presentation for most blogs, which is what people mostly wanted out of a home page, anyway.
Without detracting from Technorati's achievement, I have to point out that the NITLE blog census broke 400,000 a couple of weeks ago, and stands at 478,000 blogs right now (http://www.blogcensus.net), daily growing.
For a while Technorati's growth rate was tracking our own pretty closely, which suggests that we were observing actual growth in the number of blogs, and not just new finds in our crawl. But since we added LiveJournal updates last week, we've seeing another spike in our growth rate. It should plateau out once we finish indexing the 400K active LiveJournal blogs.
Not to just be a loudmouth here, but once you reach a saturation point, the stats won't increase so rapidly.
just a thought from a skateboarder.
TypePad should give everyone a few more blogs to suck down. Since blogs are getting a lot of press I see more growth, but I doubt it reaches a million before the end of the year. I'm guessing about 750,00 which is still an amazing feat!