Sifry’s Alerts: State of The Blogosphere, March 2005, Part 1: Growth of Blogs
In September of 2003 I noted in my thesis on blogging that Technorati, an independent weblog tracking service, were watching over 900,000 weblogs and tracking almost 78 million links. Now, according to this report from David Sifry, the founder and CEO of Technorati, his company is tracking over 7.8 million weblogs and 937 million links. The Technorati data shows that the blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 months, something that it has done four times in the last 20 months.
According to Sifry, this growth rate appears set to continue with the significant growth of popular popular blogging and journaling tools like Google’s Blogger, SixApart’s LiveJournal, AOL Journals, the proliferation of software like WordPress, Expression Engine and Movable Type and the launch of MSN spaces.
I wonder if there is there an increase in the amount of “meaningful” dialogue that is commensurate with this phenomenal growth rate or is there simply an increase in the amount of babble that is repeated endlessly over and over (as I am doing in my reporting of Sifry’s log right now)??? Does this increase in the amount of “authors” and “points of view” just mean that it becomes increasingly more difficult to disseminate all of this data? I think so.
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