Blogcount.comBlogcount asks: How big is the blogosphere? What is its shape, color, true nature? Blogcount catalogs efforts to answer these questions. We collect and organize the best reports and analyses on this subject. Contact Us: tips@dijest.comAmerican readers say blogs are mainstream- April 14, 2005 UNITED STATES: Steve Rubel summarizes a key finding from a recent survey of the general public: 30% of those surveyed read blogs. That's a lot, people. The majority, 52% of those surveyed, said bloggers should have the same rights as traditional journalists, while 27% did not express an opinion. Whoa! A minority, 39%, said that they found blogs less credible than newspaper articles. However an additional 32% said they either did not know or had no opinion. To me, this means that there is an...http://dijest.com/bc/2005/04/american-readers-say-blogs-are.html 4.5 million MSN Spaces Created. Active- April 10, 2005 REDMOND, WASHINGTON: Microsoft announced more than 4.5 million spaces (their term for weblogs) have been created. That's 3 million added in about 90 days, since 11 January 2005. Abandonment rates not reported yet. The convergenceintegration of blogs with other Microsoft assets, like MSN Messenger, Hotmail, photo sharing is supposed to improve retention. Will it If there's an art to it, Yahoo!, Naver, Livedoor, and Microsoft are all experimenting madly. UPDATE: Blake Irving, MSN's corporate...http://dijest.com/bc/2005/04/45-million-msn-spaces-created-active.html Cuban: IceRocket searches 10 million blogs- April 10, 2005 Marc Cuban claims his IceRocket search engine searches 10 million weblogs. Nick W at Threadwatch.org wonders how many are active. I wonder how many aren't in English. There must be huge overlap Between PubSub, Technorati, Google, BlogPulse, Yahoo! and other search engines. One strategy for measuring the overlap: design a hash that hides the url, but is unique for any given url. The search engines dump their hashed list of urls to a file. A neutral third party (university, research...http://dijest.com/bc/2005/04/cuban-icerocket-searches-10-million.html Claiming one Technorati Profile and another Techno...- April 8, 2005 Claiming one Technorati Profile and another Technorati Profile.http://dijest.com/bc/2005/04/claiming-one-technorati-profile-and.html Pew: 6 million Americans Timeshift Audio- April 4, 2005 UNITED STATES: The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports Podcasting catches on. The problem is they add all the mp3s downloaded for later playback (via web, p2p, etc.) to those downloaded through a podcast RSS enclosure, the definition of podcasting. Their demographics show affluent young highbandwidth people who don't hear what they need or want on radio... download.http://dijest.com/bc/2005/04/pew-6-million-americans-timeshift.html |