It’s an understatement to characterize the blogosphere as the Eldorado of the Internet Age as that will not even begin to describe the mad rush into the utopian Blogosphere. Just look at these figures compiled by Technorati (as of June) as carried on the USA Today website:
THE BLOGGING BOOM
Since March 2004, the "blogosphere" has doubled in size every five to seven months. There now are more than 53 million blogs.
Key blog statistics:
150,000 -- The number of blogs created each day, or nearly two blogs per second.
1.6 million -- The number of daily postings, or more than 66,600 per hour.
39% of the blogs were in English.
31% of the blogs were in Japanese.
12% of the blogs were in Chinese.
2% of the blogs were in Spanish.
40% of those who start a blog are still posting on it three months later.
I don’t know about you, but 31% of the blogs in Japanese! That’s awesome. And to think that Chinese outnumbers Japanese by what, 10 is to 1, one can really appreciate how pervasive computer literacy and writing culture are in Japan.
I’m barely into my second week of blogging and hope to be one of the last statistics after three months.
2 comments:
Wow, 2 blogs per second, I thought 1 is already scary. I never thought Japanese are bloggers, always hear about Aussies and Singaporeans.
The internet is always power of two. Every trend goes that way. Great statistic!
So now you know. Sometimes we are so anglo-centric linguistically that we forget there is a whole lot of other people doing different things.
I think you're trying to say that everything in Internet grows exponentially (so is the dotcom bust in the negative direction) much like the oft-cited Moore's Law.
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