State of the Blogosphere

Dave Sifry has a great post called State of the Blogosphere which is a post listing all the stats of technorati is tracking, here is what the summary was for it.

• They are now tracking over 50 million blogs
• What they are tracking is now 100 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
• It’s doubling in size every 200 days (a slow down – but considering the numbers not really)
• 175,000 blogs are created each day (the old 1 blog starting per second stat is out dated – it’s now 2 per second)
• 70% of pings that Technorati gets are from spam blogs
• Daily posting levels are at about 1.6 million posts per day (18.6 per second)
• English has retaken the lead as the most spoken language (Japanese is only 1% behind)