Posted on August 7, 2006 at 3:57 PM in thoughts
Note: The below is an archived entry from Earthling, formerly EarthLink's official blog. The blog itself has been decommissioned and is no longer updated, and comments are trackbacks are no longer accepted.
David Sifry published another State of The Blogosphere report today, and the number of new blogs continues to grow at an astounding rate. Technorati now tracks over 50 million of them. Sifry makes the point that this growth (as true blogger growth) has to slow soon -- what fraction of the six billion plus people in the world are potential bloggers?
Another trend in the report suggests that bloggers spend a fair bit of work time publishing. "I'm not entirely sure what to make of these numbers, but it would appear that English-speaking people are more likely to blog during work hours and early evening in the USA, while they are more reluctant to blog during work time in Japan."
If it's true it's not a big surprise, and Sifry points to it as a potential avenue for further research and not an actual data point. But I do want to draw any worktime bloggers' attention to this stealth browsing tool featured on Lifehacker.com a few days ago, that turns anything you're viewing into a convincing Microsoft Word Doc. Boss Key technology has come along way since the fake ad insertion order Leisure Suit Larry once displayed.
As usual, the whole Blogosphere report is a good read if you're interested in looking at big numbers around blogging trends.
Comments
I am a fifty nine year old veit-nam vet with hippie tendencies, am I the only one out there that is mad as hell and don't want to take it any more .Due to the pending hurricane season, we need to raise the price of gas . due to the pipeline problems BP are currently having ,we have to raise the price of gas. due to the fact that it is wed. day we have to raise the price of gas. when is someone going to say enough is enough. I say someone because I don't know who that would be , its not our congress becuase their on vacation, for two hundred thousand plus a year they will only work seventynine sessions this year .Remember when you were A child and your parents use to load everybody up in the car and go on A picnic or go to the zoo ,unfortunately I believe those are days that are soon to in the past. When are we thte people are going to stand up to big buisness and say enough is a enough . I am A true American GOD BLESS AMERICA.
Posted by All American Boy | August 8, 2006 9:36 AM