Technorati, a popular blog aggregator, has released data allowing a look at blogging in general. Technorati claims (as of today) to follow 50.6 million blogs.
- The number of blogs continues to grow at a dramatic pace and is presently doubling every 6.5 months.
- Blogs appear to be very responsive to current events (i.e., bloggers digest the news) and a graphic in the David Sifry post shows how peaks in the rate of daily blogging can be linked to current events.
- Approximately 39% of posts are currently written in English (Japanese was second). The time at which blogs are written appears to vary with culture and the author notes that English blogs are more likely to be written during the work day and Japanese blogs after the work day.
