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# State of the blogosphere
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/19323/
- Published: 2005-08-04T13:08:34.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:33:55.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:15

The chief geeks at blog search engine, [Technorati](http://www.technorati.org/?ref=opendemocracy.net) have put together a facinating report on global weblog activity - here's [part 1](http://www.technorati.com/weblog/2005/08/34.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) and [part 2](http://www.technorati.com/weblog/2005/08/35.html?ref=opendemocracy.net). Tomorrow, there'll be a part 3\. A couple of amazing and inspiring facts from the summary: \* Technorati was tracking over 14.2 Million weblogs, and over 1.3 billion links in July 2005 \* The blogosphere continues to double about every 5.5 months \* A new blog is created about every second, there are over 80,000 created daily \* About 55% of all blogs are active, and that has remained a consistent statistic for at least a year \* About 13% of all blogs are updated at least weekly \* That's about 10.4 blog posts per second, on average \* Weekends tend to be slower posting days by about 5-10% of the weekly averages \* Worldwide news events cause ripples through the blogosphere Have *you* created a blog today?