Technorati’s David Sifry’s regular State of the Blogosphere update was released today.  As expected the Blogosphere continues to grow at an astounding 5.5 month doubling rate.

Here are the highlights from David’s post:

• Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs
• The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months
• It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
• On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day
• 13.7 million bloggers are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created
• Spings (Spam Pings) can sometimes account for as much as 60% of the total daily pings Technorati receives
• Sophisticated spam management tools eliminate the spings and find that about 9% of new blogs are spam or machine generated
• Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour
• Over 81 Million posts with tags since January 2005, increasing by 400,000 per day
• Blog Finder has over 850,000 blogs, and over 2,500 popular categories have attracted a critical mass of topical bloggers

Several important points to note …

• while there are certainly a growing number of spam blogs (9%) Technorati and other key parties are working on stemming the tide.
• Blog abandonment seems to be lessening. 13.7 million blogs are still active three months down the line
• Tagging of posts in increasing at that same rate as blogs.

Implications of these points are that blogs are increasingly becoming one of the largest content sectors on the Internet and tags will allow searchers for find niche blogs, topics, and posts more quickly.So, have blogs and blogging passed the hype test? The technologies the power blogs certainly have. RSS, easy web-based posting of content, and aggregation of microcontent all have solid adoption in many mainstream online publications. In the next six months I expect to see more blogs focused on niche areas as e-mail becomes less viable for newsletters

Tags: blogs, blogging, tags, blog growth, Technorati, David Sifry

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