State of the Blogosphere - Stats from Technorati

Think blogs are just a fad? Think again. According to the latest stats out from Dave Sifry of Technorati, the amount of bloggers out there have doubled in size every five months. Here's the scoop:

"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."

And here's a neat little chart thingy:

And here's a summary of the blogosphere stats:

• 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

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