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Monday, August 7, 2006
Blog growth: Is there a limit?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In the time you clicked the link to call this up, two more blogs were created. That’s right, two blogs start somewhere every second. That’s about 175,000 new blogs a day.
Dave Sifry, CEO and founder of Technorati, the search engine for blogs, issued another of his State of the Blogosphere reports that documents, to no one’s surprise, that the growth of blogs is incredible.
Technorati, Sifri says, tracks more than 50 million blogs, filtering a massive amount of known spammers, or “splogs.”
The blogosphere is 100 times larger than it was three years ago. It doubles in size every 200 days.
Sifry points out that 11 of the top 90 media online sources are blogs.
Can this explosive growth keep up?
Sifry writes: “Frankly, I can’t possibly imagine it continuing to grow at this pace — after all, there are only so many human beings in the world! It has to slow down.”
What do you think?
