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50 Million Blogs ?

by jonh at 02:05PM (PDT) on July 29, 2006 | Permanent Link |

I had originally posted on this upcoming 'event' (number of blogs tracked by Technorati) last week, and had anticipated that the blog-o-meter would cross that line sometime on Friday, July 28, 2006.

Well, as of 14h00 pm PDT Technorati reports 49.9 million blogs, so I am (again) guessing that it will be sometime today ... if not, then certainly tomorrow.

A meaningless marker, for sure, but we all like watching and measuring things .. and it certainly doesn't seem so long ago that there were only 5 or 10 million blogs and blogging was still more often than not being bemusedly dismissed as a fad (hehe .. so cute that Forbes would put a blogging-focused article behind a paywall).

That was before newspapers and major online media properties began trying to incorporate blogging or other elements of interactivity into their online offerings.

It will be interesting to see what the next 12 months brings.

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Re: 50 Million Blogs ?

by Steve Sherlock on Mon 31 Jul 2006 05:49 PM PDT | Permanent Link

If you believe that number, I have a bridge that you might be interested in buying.

In my experience, I have found more spam and system generated blogs than ever before. I had been using Technorati to track instances of my blogs being referenced and that search is getting less reliable and more filled with junk. Technorati is broken and whatever the number they claim is worthless.

Re: Re: 50 Million Blogs ?

by jonh on Wed 02 Aug 2006 07:59 AM PDT | Profile | Permanent Link

I agree with you, Steve. It's just a number, and I don't doubt that for every real blog started there are X splog and roboblogs generated. And yes, I also agree that Technorati needs to develop some more effective ways to filter what is real and worthwhile versus what is just junk. Hopefully, I / we are not that naive ... and yet they keep putting up a 'number'.

Just reporting that, and then leaving it to smart and aware readers / bloggers like you to debunk and add substance.

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