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Blog Growth Still Doubling Every Half-Year Or So

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?

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Posted on August 7, 2006 3:57 PM

What Do You Think Of The New Technorati?

Several bloggers are using "the MySpace crowd" as shorthand for who and what this redesign aims its hooks at. Fortunately there's no jarring musical selection or colored type on a colored background. I get the hyperbole, but to some degree it sounds like ivory-towerism to me. Many regular Technorati enthusiasts have probably lost touch with how hard it can be to get someone to change their information search habits. That I've read, no one is yet complaining about any particular features that went away, so what's the big deal? It's almost like we don't want our geek tools to get more widely adopted.

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Posted on July 24, 2006 2:46 PM

Syndicate: Actual Human Beings Interacting In Their Natural Habitat

A discussion about the pros and cons of Technorati's tagging system broke out in Jeff Jarvis' keynote address just now. The neat thing was, not only was Technorati's founder David Sifry right there to be a part of the conversation, but he was also there to sit down with Paul Mooney to look at his product from the perspective of a somewhat frustrated end-user. And Paul was willing to engage directly, and in person, rather than through a blog or some other mediated form of communication. I'm sure this stuff happens all the time, but it's easy for it to be overshadowed (especially outside of the valley) by headlines and online gossip and really nice logos and the impressive software these people produce.

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Posted on May 16, 2006 9:51 AM

The Need To Be Something Online

Not only has the number of blogs Technorati is tracking doubled in the last six months (to 35 million blogs and counting), but according to Sifry's statistics, 55% of the blogs out there are still publishing new content 3 months after their birth. Over half of the people creating new blogs stick with them for at least three months. That number is up 5% from three months ago. On the downside, spam and junk blogs are rising rapidly as well. That's surprising to me. You'd think that as blogs go mainstream, more and more regular folk start blogs because they've been sold the idea of blogging, rather than having a need and seeking out blogging to fill it. But apparently many of the new bloggers are finding something satisfying in the process, as the new blogs that are going online today are sticking around at least longer than they were before.

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Posted on April 17, 2006 9:35 AM

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