Wednesday, February 08, 2006

"Please Spay Your Blog"

Geez, everyone has a blog these days and you know it's pervasive when lil' ol' me puts one out. I guess every blog has its purpose and I like mine because I can put anything and everything on it, depending on my mood. There's something about imprinting your persona and publishing out to the great unknown cyberspace....or maybe I'm just a real girl geek at heart. =)

Check out the stats:

Technorati's David Sifry has issued one of his periodic State of the Blogosphere reports. According to Technorati's stats, the current average reproduction rate for blogs is one every second of every day. The site now tracks 27.2 million blogs, a population 60 times bigger than it was three years ago, and one that is doubling every 5.5 months. Of course a new blog is a lot of responsibility, and some new owners end up abandoning them to a friendless life of content starvation. But Technorati found 13.7 million bloggers still posting three months after their blogs were created, a rising rate of retention. The big issue (aside from fake blogs and spam pings) is cutting through the cacophony -- a job for voluntary tagging, as Technorati is trying, or more of the kind of intelligent filtering that memeorandum does.

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