Blogs Rule !
p2pnet.net News:- It`s almost six months since David Sifry and the folks at Technorati put together a report detailing the number of bloggers, and the growth of new blogs per day. The numbers were startling then, but now they’re staggering.
Blogs are going online at the rate of about one every second, says Sifry. 
As of the end of July 2005, Technorati was tracking over 14.2 Million weblogs, and over 1.3 billion links, about double the number tracked five 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, he says.
MSN Spaces, Blogger, LiveJournal, AOL Journals, plus international hosted services, are growing quickly, as is the use of software such as WordPress and Movable Type.
There’s a growing number of WordPress-based hosted services that are arising, including Laughing Squid, Dreamhost, and Blue Host, marking an interesting trend – that of ISPs and hosting providers using the GPL’ed software as a differentiating feature of their services, says Sifry.
Moblogging sites like Textamerica and Buzznet have also been growing as well, as more people are blogging from their camera-enabled mobile phones.
Growth has not only occurred in the US, but there has been a lot of blog growth in Japan, Korea, China, France, and Brazil, to name a few countries.
Sify says tomorrow he`ll update posting volume.
Lots of people who start new blogs are kicking tires and thus the numbers displayed above could be indicative of a fad in progress, he says, but watching the posting volume shows how many people are actually blogging on a day-by-day basis.
He`ll also be describing the rise of tags, the increase in spam (or fake) blogs and SEO and, possibly the most important data of all, an update on the relative influence of blogs compared to the mainstream media.
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See:-
Sifry – State of the Blogosphere, August 2005, Part 1: Blog Growth, August 2, 2005
August 2nd, 2005 at 6:07 pm
Its all very well but i suspect the vast majority are never read or maybe have 1 or 2 readers so it begs the question why do people bother and what makes them think that others are interested in their lives
August 2nd, 2005 at 6:10 pm
i’ve always said i think personal blogs are stupid things.
who cares?!
August 2nd, 2005 at 6:53 pm
There’s a lot more than just personal blogs. this site is full of bloggers who voice their views on the topic of the media cartel. What makes blogs important isn’t so much their acuracy it’s the fact that tens of thousands of people can make their views known publicly and actually have them heard. The news media has always told us what to think, now they have to listen to what we think. Blogs do have an impact when you hear those in power complaining about them.
Rick
August 2nd, 2005 at 7:23 pm
but that’s the point.
sure, if all these personal “bloggers” had anything remotely interesting to say, I might be mildly interested or entertained.
mostly all i’ve ever seen are mundane descriptions of their daily lives, grandma’s recipes, and long, drawn-out complaints of unrequited love and/or bouts of depression because of them.
who cares? mabye only their families. in that case, why make it public? just email a newsletter to your family.
the only times it’s ever been “exciting” are when some idiot rags on his boss or employer, or stupidly discloses so-called “company secrets”, then brags to his friends and co-workers about it, the dope then gets fired and/or sued, and the lamestream media jumps on it for a few days.
personal blogs are stupid things.
stick to real news. make a real news weblog and people might be interested. if not, who cares what time you had breakfast, or if your most recent bowel movement was a bit soft?
not me!
August 2nd, 2005 at 8:06 pm
then don’t read those.
obviously there are those out there with no lives who like to know the details of others lives. Look at Hollywood and the tabloids. Blogs, like anything else, is very important and restricting them or criticizing them will and does limit the freedom of self expression. I think it’s important for the news media and government to know our views, not in a sanitized official government or network blog, but in Blogs like this one privately run. Unfortunatly we have to put up with those personal ones as well in order to have this freedom. BTW how many books and TV shows are done detailing the lives of people constantly. just because they are celebs or well known doesn’t make it any better. Knowing where Tom Hanks takes a vacation is just as meaningless and where I take mine. But those are all on OFFICIAL tv and media outlets so it adds more toward credibility even though it isn’t.
Rick
August 3rd, 2005 at 1:34 am
I find better news from bloggers than I do from the lamestream press. Yes, I know that there is spin and lies in the blogosphere, but I also know that the same occurs as ofter if not more in the lamestream press. At least with blogs, i can get both sides of a story. Some stories such as the Marvin Heemeyer incident in Granby, Colorado was buried in the national media (it was big news in Colorado). I heard about the story in a blog much like this one. It presents a novel approach to fighting city hall.
The cartels are fast losing control on the flow of information. The new media for the peopl and by the people will take over. This new media consists of networks such as the Internet and FrwweWan.
August 4th, 2005 at 4:36 pm
No blggs are generally written by self important sad assholes with too much time on their time