Technorati’s State of the Live Web
I love technorati. Sometimes, in my dealings with them for clients they have been frustrating, but I still love the site and the service. It remains unique in its focus and as a search engine is the only one other than google that seems worthwhile to me. Every quarter they write a State of the Blogosphere, this time they’ve done it as a State of the Live Web, which expands the domain of the discussion to all social networking/content sites like flickr and such.
It’s very interesting reading, some bullet point highlights:
· 70 million weblogs
· About 120,000 new weblogs each day
· 3000-7000 new splogs (fake, or spam blogs) created every day
· 1.5 million posts per day
· Growing from 35 to 75 million blogs took 320 days
· 22 blogs among the top 100 blogs among the top 100 sources linked to in Q4 2006 - up from 12 in the prior quarter
Another really neat part of the post is where he talks about the languages that blogs are written in. Japanese has overtaken the top language (from English) with 37% of blogs! That’s pretty amazing, given the number of english speakers vs. japanese. I think there’s a statement about the penetration of broadband and the ubiquity of internet access in Japan vs. America and other english speaking countries. You can see how concentrated the Japanese are in their hourly chart where in English the number of posts is pretty consistent from hour to hour, but there’s a huge spike in the Japanese since everyone is largely awake and asleep there at the same time.
He also talks about Farsi breaking into the top 10 languages. It appears that there’s been a strong growth in blogging in the middle east, especially Iran. I’d love to see just a chart of the Farsi blogging grown correllated with time markers for major events.
I’d love to see numbers that show how many blogs are abandoned - either disappeared or else not updated in several montsh. I’d love to compare an abandon rate to the creation rate of blogs. Thems would be some interesting numbers.
Anyhow, the news is a little old, but that’s how I roll. If you haven’t already read it, it’s worth a read.
UPDATE: Wait, if he does the State of the Live Web every quarter, does that make 1 human year equal to 4 blogger years?
