Dave Sifry's overview of the world of blogs includes the astounding estimate that the number of blogs has doubled nearly every 6 months for the last 3 years, meaning the Blogosphere is 60 times bigger than it was in the spring of 2003. The current growth rate is one new blog per second, with 55% (19.4 million) of those blogs having a lifespan of more than 3 months.
Sifry's next "State of the Blogosphere" post promises to talk about the tagging phenomenon. Given how large the blog world has grown, one would really expect it to somewhat spontaneously organize itself somehow. Tagging, of course, is one way to organize content - by topic. And I suppose awards like The Webbies pull together the highest quality sites from a range of categories, at least at the elite level -- you'll be able to peruse the latest crop of Webby Award winners when they are announced May 9 -- but that's not really self-organization.
Since I don't believe I blogged about some of the new features Technorati released a while back, this would be a good time to point out that you can sort your Technorati searches by levels of "authority." Your blogs authority is measured by.... you guessed it: how many other posts link to yours.
Think of it like the New York Times Best Sellers List. The more attention you get, the more attention people think you deserve.
(One day soon there will also be the equivalent of an Oprah's Book Club for blogs ... a way to make blogs even more accessible to those who like their hands held through their media consumption.)
Labels: blogging, data
Posted by Melanie Phung
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State of the Blogosphere: Q1 2006
Dave Sifry's overview of the world of blogs includes the astounding estimate that the number of blogs has doubled nearly every 6 months for the last 3 years, meaning the Blogosphere is 60 times bigger than it was in the spring of 2003. The current growth rate is one new blog per second, with 55% (19.4 million) of those blogs having a lifespan of more than 3 months.
Sifry's next "State of the Blogosphere" post promises to talk about the tagging phenomenon. Given how large the blog world has grown, one would really expect it to somewhat spontaneously organize itself somehow. Tagging, of course, is one way to organize content - by topic. And I suppose awards like The Webbies pull together the highest quality sites from a range of categories, at least at the elite level -- you'll be able to peruse the latest crop of Webby Award winners when they are announced May 9 -- but that's not really self-organization.
Since I don't believe I blogged about some of the new features Technorati released a while back, this would be a good time to point out that you can sort your Technorati searches by levels of "authority." Your blogs authority is measured by.... you guessed it: how many other posts link to yours.
Think of it like the New York Times Best Sellers List. The more attention you get, the more attention people think you deserve.
(One day soon there will also be the equivalent of an Oprah's Book Club for blogs ... a way to make blogs even more accessible to those who like their hands held through their media consumption.)
Labels: blogging, data
Posted by Melanie Phung