Robert Scoble reports that there are now 72 million blogs on Windows Live Spaces alone, this when Technorati tracks 50 (odd) million all up across the globe…and people don’t believe me when I say there is 300 million odd blogs out there on the internet because they tell me Technorati says there are 50 million….
Of course, Robert rightfully challenges these figures based on activity and content, but it’s important to note what the question is. If the question is how many blogs does Windows Live Spaces have, the answer is clearly 72 million, in the same way that when I use to count these things over at the Blog Herald I’d come up with figures of around 200 million…if the question is how many active blogs they are given a number of criteria (activity, original content etc) the answer is naturally different. Both are questions that should be made and are worthy of answer, but it’s important to note the difference.
Hey,
read your comment on micropersuasion.com and replied to it. About activity, out of the ~13 million profiles I scanned, more than 10 million are inactive, which can tell us as much about the activity of blogs, if any. I agree the numbers are high and out of them, the no. of real active bloggers is a very small percentage. You can read more here if interested:
http://miteshvasa.blogspot.com/2006/06/blogalysisbloganalysis.html