Time To Believe

Third Party Content

There is an interesting article in the USA Today today. It seems that bloggers are being sued. In January a blogger became the first blogger to lose a libel suit for what he wrote on his blog. There has even been some bloggers sued over comments left on there blog. They "the courts" have not decided if the blogger can be held libel for the comments yet. This is known as third party content. Below you will find some stats about blogs from the article.

Since March 2004, the "blogosphere" has doubled in size every five to seven months. There are now 53 million blogs. (Now 55.9 million.) This number is just the blogs that technorati track so there are many more than that.

150,000 The number of blogs created each day. or nearly two blogs per second.
1.6 million The number of daily postings, or more than 66,000 per hour.
39% of the blogs were in English.
31% of the blogs were Japanese.
12% of the blogs were Chinese.
2% of the blogs were Spanish. (That is interesting)
40% of those who start a blog are still posting on it three months later.

Source: Technorati as of June 2006 This is where USA Today got these stats.

posted by Michael @ 3:16 PM