Here are some interesting blog stats from Technorati, courtesy The Register…
- Weblog search engine Technorati says it is now tracking over three million webblogs, with 8,000-17,000 new blogs created every single day. That means that a new weblog is created somewhere in the world every 5.8 seconds. Of these, a reported 36 per cent irritate friends or family with their twitterings, while a staggering 12 per cent attract the attention of lawyers with their biting commentary.
Heh. I still think the blog hype is overrated. It’s a tool, people, not a revolution. Blogs are (generally speaking) just a new varient of vanity web sites; just as some vanity sites were useful and interesting, some blogs are useful and interesting. Blogging software makes it easy for nearly anyone to host a site and update it regularly, but honestly, it’s no more of a revolution than say, Geocities was in the 1990s. If there’s anything from the “Blog-o-lution” that is interesting it’s RSS… syndication, finally done right, well, mostly right. But syndication isn’t a new idea either
(*cough*Pointcast*cough*Marimba*cough*Push*cough*).
*Anything* that gets people – especially young people and children – to write more is a good thing. I’m a fan of television and video games but a little less of those and a little more writing is a good thing. If writing starts as “twittering” on blogs, hey, at least it’s still writing. And if people are writing blogs chances are they are reading blogs. The ones that really get into the blogging end up learning some code or at least how the ‘net works. Writing and reading and learning – maybe the blog isn’t a revolution but what it can lead to is.
Oh, I agree, writing is a good thing… and the more you do it, the more you learn. Blogs are a good place to start, I just get annoyed with people who claim Blogs are the most revolutionary idea since the Internet itself. That’s just not true.
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