57 million and … nah, not counting any more
David Sifry posts on the state of the blogosphere. There are more than 57mn blogs, and amazingly, more than half of them are active: “About 55% of all blogs are active, which means that they have been updated at least once in the last 3 months.” The blogosphere has very slightly slowed in growth, doubling only (!) every 236 days or so.
You’d expect that, really. This doubling stuff has got as much to do with new blogs as new bloggers, I’m inclined to think. The number of bloggers may not grow nearly as much. But we diddle about with different hosts and platforms. Lose interest in one blog and start another. That’s purely based on anecdotal evidence: the 33% of my RSS subs that have changed address over the last 12 months. But those 33% are presumably pretty established (since I managed to find them, they must be) and so less volatile than the norm.
There are 1.3mn postings per day. So, only 1 in (meh..) 48 blogs get a daily update, averaged out. In reality, there’s probably a long tail: about 10% updated daily; 10% updated 2-3 times a week and the rest every now and then. I’d love to know the breakdown on that. How may of us only post once a week, a month? - quite a lot according to the stats. And what is the measure of that?
Update: Google Blogoscoped has the funniest take on this story.
