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.comInstapundit.com - 100 million page views since launch- March 26, 2005 Noted. Stats. Second most cited blogger on Technorati these days.http://dijest.com/bc/2005/03/instapunditcom-100-million-page-views.html 1.6 million French Skyblogs- March 24, 2005 FRANCE: Music radio station SkyRock's Skyblog is growing quickly. They will have 3.5 to 4 million blogs by year end. From their home page today:1,653,745 Skyblogs63,767,145 Articles 87,312,381 Comments Today:8,792 Skyblogs created405,414 Articles published This averages out to a lively 39 posts per blog, 53 comments per blog. Assuming bloggers posted no more than one post today, 1 in 4 skybloggers were active today. The 1.6 million Skybloggers are 2.6 percent of France's population.http://dijest.com/bc/2005/03/16-million-french-skyblogs.html A note on Bubbles and Forgetting- March 21, 2005 I've been a fan of John Dvorak for -- let's say decades. He's always been one of my favorite curmudgeons among technical columnists. We've both seen fads come and go, and that memory keeps us steady in hip deep hype. He's blogging now, he gets it, and he's started to metablog. In a recent column for PC Magazine, Conformism in the High-Tech Era, he cites my post about the Korean blogosphere to make a point about jump-on-the-bandwagon hype and conformism. "It is asserted that there are 11.9...http://dijest.com/bc/2005/03/note-on-bubbles-and-forgetting.html Technorati view of blogosphere doubles every 5 months- March 15, 2005 Some findings reported by Technorati's David Sifry: The number of blogs Technorati tracks doubled every 5 months for the last 20 months. Useful for planning server purchases, I bet. If the trend continues (and we don't know why it should), Technorati should be tracking 15 million blogs by August, 30 million by January. Technorati discovers 30-40 thousand blogs daily. Technorati is working hard to remove fake or spam blogs from their reporting. Perhaps 10% of malicious content makes..http://dijest.com/bc/2005/03/technorati-view-of-blogosphere-doubles.html Feed readers hide blog attention from ad metrics- March 14, 2005 NielsenNetRatings studies web surfing behavior. For example, in January 2005 People surfed at least daily They went to 62 domains a monthLook at 30-35 pages per session, about 45 seconds each By comparison, some bloggers using newsreaders, like Robert Scoble, can keep up with a thousand blogs in the time others visit a few dozen. These blog readers: Grab fresh stuff from blogs continuously. Discover dozens of new blogs each month. Consume 300-350 posts per session, most for 3 to 5..http://dijest.com/bc/2005/03/feed-readers-hide-blog-attention-from.html Survey of BlogAds' Blog Readers: getting older, richer, more female- March 13, 2005 Henry Copeland reports BlogAds second annual survey of blog readers is over. Early findings: 75% are over 30 years old (up 16%) 43% had family incomes greater than $90,000 (up 3%) (margin of error) One reader in five is a blogger 1.7% are CEOs 44% spend more than $500 for air tickets 86% purchased music online 75% are men (down 4%) (margin of error) Half found blogs their most useful source of news and opinion 4.8% listen to podcasts weekly 28% use RSS to...http://dijest.com/bc/2005/03/survey-of-blogads-blog-readers-getting.html LiveJournal churns users and squeezes small hosts- March 9, 2005 A little over six months ago (191 days) I looked at LiveJournal software's population. LJ software powers a number of sites, and I looked at 14 of them. Since then: LiveJournal's share grew from 88% to 90% of the community. SocialJournal folded. It had 189 active users of the 5255 who'd once tried or used the service. The number of cumulative accounts grew 39% to 8.7 million. The number of active accounts grew 10% to 1.67 million. Growth was not evenly distributed. Only 4 of the 13...http://dijest.com/bc/2005/03/livejournal-churns-users-and-squeezes.html One Third of Online Adult Americans Know Blogs- March 8, 2005 WASHINGTON (CNN): via Bloggers Blog: More than three-quarters of Americans -- 76 percent -- said they use the Internet, but only 26 percent said they were "very familiar" or "somewhat familiar" with blogs. ... Just 7 percent of adults said they read blogs at least a few times per week, according to the CNNUSA TodayGallup poll. Forty-eight percent said they never do. ... The poll was based on telephone interviews of 1,008 American adults carried out February 25-27. It has a margin of error of...http://dijest.com/bc/2005/03/one-third-of-online-adult-americans.html IBM intranet: 200 active bloggers- March 7, 2005 Via the IAOC blog. Blogging at IBM by Phil Borremans at 05:27PM (CET) on March 4, 2005 Hi everyone, just wanted to give an overview of how blogging is used at IBM. At this moment we have about 2800 internal weblogs (on a total worldwide population of about 330.000 IBM'ers.) with about 12700 entries. About 200 blogs have more than 10 posts on them... On the other hand, editors can come from any part of the company; engineers, communications, research, software... you name it. ... Some of these.http://dijest.com/bc/2005/03/ibm-intranet-200-active-bloggers.html |