Blogs Posts Double, PSFK Remains Your Favorite Site

OK, maybe. But anyway, Technorati boss David Sifry has provided his latest ’state of the blogosphere’ report and claims that there are now 50 million blogs with 175,000 new weblogs were created each day.

It does make us wonder who the heck is actually writing these, because a vast swathe of our friends in Europe and the US still couldn’t be arsed – and consider what we do quite obsessive and a little obsessive freaky.

Looking at his stats, as many Japanese language posts are written as English. A little more scary is that fact that 70% of pings that Technorati receives is from a spammer. Does that figure mean that over 35 million of the total blogs are spam?

Maybe a better stat to help you understand the nature of the blogsphere is the output: The total posting volume has doubled of the blogosphere is 1.6 Million postings per day.

Sifry’s stats aren’t very useful. We’d love a better analysis of the site. We’re love to know the lifespan, the geography of blogs. We’d love to compare frequently updated blogs with once-in-a-while ones. We’d love to understand the networks of blogs and the patterns in which they interconnect. Next time, D?

Sifry’s Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, August 2006