It's time again for Technorati's fascinating State of the Live Web report.
This report continues to track the expansion of blogging as a mainstream media, as well as documenting changes in the blog world, from the use of tagging to the dominant blogging languages.
Since the last report in October 2006, the blog world has continued to grow - now Technorati tracks 1.5 million posts per day, as well as about 1.4 new blogs per second.
For most of us English speakers, it comes as something of a surprise to see Japanese as the prevalent language - 37% of all blog posts are in Japanese, compared to 36% in English. It's also interesting to note that Italian comes in in fouth place in the language list with 3% of all posts, behind Chinese with 8%.
The report also looks at the explosive growth of tags in recent months, with 35% of the 230 million posts that Technorati indexes now using tags.
So what does this mean for us bloggers? Well, it means that we are an increasingly important part of mainstream media, in an increasingly international and user-friendly blogosphere. I for one feel honoured to be part of this movement. I'm already looking forward to Technorati's next State of the Live Web report, to see how much further we have come.
Comments (3)
Thanks for this report. It's fascinating to see how much of an impact bloggers have on the media of today. Personally I just enjoy doing this and can't believe that people read anything I write, but there is to be found in the blogging world.
Be sure to check out the rest of the report, it really does make fascinating reading.
This is one of my favourites, it shows the peaks in blog posts relating to world events.
"This report continues to track the expansion of blogging as a mainstream media, as well as..."
Medium is the singular.
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