David Sifry has just done his quarterly update on the state of the blogosphere and, again, the results are fascintating.
The blogosphere has continued to double in size every five to seven months, and Sifry is beginning to wonder how much longer it can keep growing exponentially. Sure, it can't go on forever. However, Technorati only tracks 50 million blogs, and there are getting on for a billion people online, so there's still a lot of room for expansion. Indeed, there's no reason why there shouldn't eventually be more blogs than than there are people.
The highlights include:
The Blogosphere is over 100 times bigger than it was just 3 years ago.
About 175,000 new weblogs were created each day, which means that on average, there are more than 2 blogs created each second of each day.
Total posting volume of the blogosphere continues to rise, showing about 1.6 Million postings per day, or about 18.6 posts per second.
The graphs are worth close examination....
