David Sifry of Technorati has posted another comment on The State of the Blogosphere, based on his talk from the Web 2.0 conference. The bullet points are:
* As of October 2005, Technorati is now tracking 19.6 Million weblogs * The total number of weblogs tracked continues to double about every 5 months * The blogosphere is now over 30 times as big as it was 3 years ago, with no signs of letup in growth * About 70,000 new weblogs are created every day * About a new weblog is created each second * 2% - 8% of new weblogs per day are fake or spam weblogs * Between 700,000 and 1.3 Million posts are made each day * About 33,000 posts are created per hour, or 9.2 posts per second An additional 5.8% of posts (or about 50,000 posts/day) seen each day are from spam or fake blogs, on average
