Sifry: Fifty Thousand Blog Posts Per Hour

No, that's not Technorati founder David Sifry's posting regimen, but a figure based on Technorati tracking about 1.2 million blog posts per day. Four months after Sifry's last State of the Blogosphere discussion about blogs and growth, he has revisited the topic to posted about what the numbers could mean: If you have any doubt that we're now in a paradigm shift toward an object or post level distributed web, aggregated thru search and tags, read this now. Media. listings, and information services business--What does that mean for your portals? Users may not need to come to your site to get what you offer. The numbers show a rapid growth rate for blogs. With over 75,000 blogs created every day, that averages out to a new blog every second. As John Murrell at Good Morning Silicon Valley Many bloggers update their creations on at least a weekly basis. Sifry cited Technorati's numbers in stating 2.7 million bloggers do at least a weekly update. Not all the numbers represent good activity in the blogosphere. Sifry said "about 9% of new blogs are spam or machine generated, or are attempts to create link farms or click fraud." He also said Technorati and several other tech companies, including all the major search engines, will participate in another "Web 2.0 Spam Squashing Summit" this spring to further form plans to combat the problem. With the blogosphere's growth, and Technorati's increasing status, where does it go from here? Telecom blogger Mark Evans here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo My Web David Utter is a staff writer for murdok covering technology and business.