Technorati: Charting Blogdom's Rise

"Sifry mentioned that Technorati started out on Thanksgiving weekend 2002 as an effort to find out "who was talking about me" in the blogosphere. Since then, it has begun charting an increasing number of blogs -- an average of:

- 3,000 a day in January 2003
- 4,000 a day by that March
- 6,000 a day by June 2003
- 8,000-9,000 new blogs a day by September 2003
- 10,000 at the end of 2003
- 11,000 to 12,000 new blogs a day today.

That's pretty incredible, and it adds up to 2.4 million total blogs that Technorati is monitoring. Not all are active. Of that number, about 45 percent have not been updated in the past three months. And he points out that 2.4 million blogs does not equate to 2.4 million bloggers, because many bloggers have multiple blogs." [JD's New Media Musings]

It would be interesting to know how many of those are by librarians and how many are for libraries.

Check out this great Blog Software Breakdown! I will definitely be looking at this closely as I examine our options at SLS.

In other news, the Public Library Association (PLA) has posted an ePublication about weblogs written by none other than our very own Steven M. Cohen! I just know Steven will have them blogging with RSS feeds soon! Go, PLA!