Amazing numbers about the growth of blogs

According to David Sifry, Technorati's chief executive, the current number of blogs is now over 8 times bigger than the 500,000 blogs it measured in June, 2003 and doubled every 5 months over the last 1.5 years.

The company tracked 3 million blogs as of the first week of July, and has added over 1 million blogs to its stable since then.

To show the power of the blogs, Pew Internet & American Life says that a new weblog is created every 5.8 seconds. That roughly translates into 15,000 new blogs every day.

However, while there are estimates that there will be 10 million blogs by the end of 2004, half of them will be dead and some say that only about 1 million are updated regularly.

Some Blog Demoraphics:

Age Range Blogs Created
by Age Percent
10-12 55,500 1.3%
13-19 2,120,000 51.5%
20-29 1,630,000 39.6%
30-39 241,000 5.8%
40-49 41,700 1.0%
50-59 18,500 0.4%
60-69 13,900 0.3%
Total 4,120,000 100%

Source: Perseus Development Corp.

According to our opinion it is a matter of transforming a blog from a personal diary into something "living". All bloggers somehow start a blog of on a very personal level, but than branch out into new areas. It is important to be interactive, as the web is about Interactivity, otherwise, it might get boring. But then, as usual, it is also important to have fun and passion in doing what you are doing. And a little reward, such as increasing visitor numbers, is a sure thing to keep going.

(By Asia Business Consulting)