Technorati: State of the Blogosphere

From David Sifry's State of the Blogosphere post:

* Technorati is now tracking over 50 Million Blogs.

* The Blogosphere is over 100 times bigger than it was just 3 years ago.

* Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size every 200 days, or about once every 6 and a half months.

* About 175,000 new weblogs were created each day, which means that on average, there are more than 2 blogs created each second of each day.

* Total posting volume of the blogosphere continues to rise, showing about 1.6 Million postings per day, or about 18.6 posts per second.

* This is about double the volume of about a year ago.

* The most prevalent times for English-language posting is between the hours of 10AM and 2PM Pacific time, with an additional spike at around 5PM Pacific time.

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