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State of the blogosphere, August 2006 August 7, 2006

Posted by James Warren in Uncategorized.
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Dave Sifry has posted his latest state of the blogosphere.  Here are some edited highlights:

  • Technorati is now tracking over 50 Million Blogs.
  • The Blogosphere is over 100 times bigger than it was just 3 years ago.
  • Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size every 200 days, or about once every 6 and a half months.
  • From January 2004 until July 2006, the number of blogs that Technorati tracks has continued to double every 5-7 months.
  • 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.
  • This is about double the volume of about a year ago.

Great stuff, lovely graphs etc.  But am I alone in thinking 50 million is a small number?  And while we’re on the subject, does anyone else find Technorati’s search results, erm, unfulfilling?

Not very slick August 7, 2006

Posted by James Warren in pr, social media.
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Speculation here that a ‘homemade’ YouTube video making fun of Al Gore was actually created and uploaded by Exxon’s PR agency in the US.  Ouch.  Whether it’s true or not, all this serves to do is further rubbish the PR industry’s reputation, and make my/our jobs harder.  Big corporate clients can be somewhat apprehensive about engaging with social media - stories like this just add further fuel to the fire and give them another reason not to take advantage of the opportunities available.

Via (the very excellent) Tom Coates

2 3 4 August 7, 2006

Posted by James Warren in geeky stuff, media, web 2.0.
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This week’s Channel 4 Three Minute Wonders are to be shown simultaneously on TV and in Second Life - each will be a kind of parallel documentary about Second Lifers and their in-game characters.  What a great idea.  What’s also cool is that the filmmakers submitted their treatment for the films via Channel 4’s IdeasFactory initiative.  Consumer-generated TV, anyone?  Hat tip: PSFK