Measuring The Blogging Boom

Originally from PC Magazine, then to SF Gate, then to here. None of the following is my commentary or reflects the opinions of this blog, though I do have two dead blogs out there.

Measuring the blogging boom

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If you've come to believe there are more blogs out there than there are people to read them, you may very well be right.

A honking big new series of stories from PC Magazine confirms the blogging boom, estimating that we'll have upwards of 100 million blogs out there by the end of the year. That's the bad news, in my humble opine.

The good news is that the mag also predicts we'll peak out around then and scale back to about 30 million blogs in the near future. You have time to digest that, right?

Anyhoo, here's some more blog-tastic stats:

--175,000 new blogs are being started each day. (Technorati)
--The number of active blogs grew from 56 million to 62.3 million between October of 2006 and January 2007. (Gartner)
--The total number of dead, abandoned blogs out there has exceeded 200 million.(Gartner).

Nothing sadder than an abandoned blog. Yep.