July 7, 2004
technorati reaches 3 million blogs
Technorati passed the 3 million blog mark today. To go from 2 to 3 million took them 3 months. To go from 1 to 2 million took them 6 months. Ergo the frequency of people starting blogs has doubled in the last 3 months.
Jarvis writes about it well:
Technorati, as many will report today, just passed 3 million blogs tracked (our equivalent of 300 million burgers served) at a rate of 15,000 new blogs per day. Technorati founder Dave Sifry reports that of these, 1.65 million are updated actively, though Mary Hodder emphasizes that that doesn’t mean the rest are abandoned; blogs are used for many reasons (for example, for the once-a-year conference) and they still have information and value. At any rate, the conversations keep growing: Technorati is seeing more than 275,000 posts every day; three blogs are updated every second. The people are talking and the volume is growing.
I’m still musing on their whole “Smarter Conversations” schtick I’m working on with them.
It’s all tied in to The Hughtrain Manifesto: “It’s about thriving in markets which are smarter and faster than you are” etc etc.
: Thinking back to the late ‘nineties: Dotcom was not a failure of the internet. Dotcom happened because a lot of dinosaurs tried to do a massive land-grab on an area they weren’t fit to inhabit. Though it didn’t get a lot of media attention at the time, many of us freaks had a lot of fun watching it all go pear-shaped.
