Hooray! Dave Sifri’s latest State of the Blogosphere is online. Highlights:
57 million blogs
3 million blogs created during third quarter of 2006
100,000 blogs created every day
55% of all blogs are ‘active’ — defined as having been updated at least once in the last three months (doesn’t seem very active to me)
The blogosphere is doubling in size approximately every 230 days
About 1.3 million postings every day
Most popular languages are English (39%), Japanese (33%), Chinese (10%), Spanish (3%), Italian, Russian, Portuguese, French (all equal on 2%). Farsi (1%) has pushed its way into the top ten for the first time.
