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20 Million Bloggers And Counting The Stats Of The Blogosphere
t is confirmed. The The report on the Blogosphere
Blogosphere continues to growth made in October 2005,
grow at a pace no one has showed Technorati tracking 19.6
anticipated. In fact, it would be million weblogs which was
very difficult to quote a number expected to double every five
as the total tends to change by months. During this time, there
the second of every day. were about 70,000 new weblogs
created everyday and that the
The Blogosphere Report blogosphere was estimated to be
over 30 times as big as three
According to the State of the years prior to the report. A
Blogosphere report as of February comparison between these two
2006, Technorati is tracking 27.2 recent reports would show that
million weblogs and is expected the blogosphere growth is showing
to double about every 5.5 months. no signs of letting-up at the
The Blogosphere as it is at present. Reports prior to that of
present is estimated to be over October 2005 will support this
60 times bigger than it was three thinking.
years ago. New blog creation is
placed at over 75,000 new weblogs While growth brings its benefits
everyday which translate to an as well as its downside, the
average of one weblog created increasing popularity of blogs
every second. It has also been brought with it the proliferation
noted that 13.7 million bloggers of “spings” or spam pings. These
are still posting three months are fake or bogus notifications
after its blog creation. This that a blog has been updated. It
sends a clear message that is believed that it accounts for
blogging is becoming a habitual as much as 60% of the total pings
activity. received by Technorati. This
prompted the development of a
sophisticated system that tagging. This is essentially a
mitigates the spings and helps simple way for bloggers to
keep spam blogs out of their categorize their posts to assist
indexes. Technorati’s efforts on the searchers in their quest for
working against this problem are the right information. There are
continuous and in cooperation thousands of categories that have
with other players such as been created to attract
Google, Yahoo! and others. influential bloggers to write
Another aspect of the problem is while more are created everyday
the considerable percentage of to provide the most comprehensive
new blogs that are either spam, coverage for the reader’s varied
machine-generated or attempts to needs and requirements.
create link farms or click fraud.
Most blogs are personal but many
There are about 1.2 million posts of which feature the new
made each day and a number of influences of consumer decisions.
spikes in posting volume are These are the consumers that
generally seen during major news provide feedback about large
events. It has become impossible brands ranging from positive
to read all the relevant posts to raves of product excellence to
an issue or subject due to the rants about the latest product
sheer number of choices. Again, a recall. These have prompted more
challenge has been presented as businesses to consider the
to how to find the most relevance of maintaining a blog
interesting and most as part of their regular
authoritative information in a activities. With so much freedom
monstrous sea of conversation. and availability of on-line
information or misinformation,
This problem is being sought to any business would benefit from
be countered through the use of having their own conversation
forum for their brands, products other areas. Spikes on blog
and services to protect their activities were readily seen
reputation. Blogs provide the during Iowa’s caucuses, the
chance to give the other side of beheading of Nicholas Berg and
the story especially for the Southeast Asian Tsunami
businesses that are on siege with catastrophe, among others. Blog
negative feedback. traffic tends to spike sharply
when certain web-communicable
The Blogosphere Statistics events occur.
In the year 2004, which was In a survey conducted during the
considered the Year of the Blog, same year, it was found out that
some interesting facts came to 57% of bloggers are male, 48% are
the fore with regards to blog under 30 years of age, 82% have
readership. A very sharp increase on-line experience for six years
was noted during the most part of or more, 42% live in households
the year despite the fact that earning over $50,000 income
most American Internet users have annually, 70% have broadband
no clear idea about blogs. The connection at home and 39% have
increase in interest was evident college or graduate degrees. It
on both the creation and demand was also the year that the
sides. conversational dynamics of blogs
caught on. A considerable
The surge in blog creation and percentage of American Internet
readership was partly credited to users have posted comments or
the fact that 2004 was an other materials on blogs and are
election year in the U.S. with a regular blog readers. The more
highly divided electorate. The active bloggers update their
concentration was on political blogs regularly resulting to more
blogs which spilled over into than 275,000 posts daily or
approximately 11,000 updates an even reach 100 days while some
hour. gets abandoned after a year or
more. A typical blog would be one
In the same breath, there seems that is written by a teenager
to be some initial data that says updating friends of daily
less than 10% of women are happenings in his/her life. The
political bloggers and tone would be very informal with
approximately 20% only of blog no particular concern for form
readers are women. There also and spelling.
seems to be a belief that the
blogosphere is elite because of With the phenomenal popularity of
the qualifications of most of its blogs, some are quick to point
bloggers as well as its readers. out that it is about to reach its
Its present composition however, peak and suffer the same fate as
may not exactly agree with the an outdated fashion. Blogs’
said data as gender and attraction can be largely
educational background have long attributed to the novelty
ceased to be exclusive factors to attached to it, but it can be
be considered. Generally, as long tiring when overdone. Bloggers
as someone has something to say should look for that balance
or contribute, the blogosphere where frequency and relevance
will always welcome him/her with come together.
open arms.
Blogging may be replaced sometime
Several other studies indicate in the future by some technical
that most blogs are abandoned innovations. That is just the way
soon after creation and that only it is in modern technology. The
a few are updated regularly. The good thing about it is that some
average lifespan of a blog is things like the need to converse
very short. Most blogs do not with another would remain. So
even if blogging goes, a better purpose, but definitely in an
alternative would surely come improved way.
that would serve the same
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