Technorati's blogosphere

[see: Blog growth, Posting volume, Tagging, Spam, A-list & long tail]

Technorati's twice-yearly summaries clearly demonstrate that weblogs are not a fad, and growth/uptake has continued, and is sustained. Most notably the blogosphere continues to double every five months, with 55% being active. 13% of all weblogs are updated at least weekly - posting volume has doubled in the last 7 months. Weblog search and posting volumes responds to world events, and cause ripples in the blogosphere.

The webloggers appear to be comfortable with technology, as demonstrated by the following. About a third of all weblogs use tagging. More people are blogging from their camera-enabled mobile phones, using post-from-IM (AOL and MSN), using tools which post directly into weblogs (Flickr), and tagging their photos and links (social bookmarks).

A growth in spam blogs and fake blogs has accompanied the growth of the blogosphere. However key industry players (AOL, Google, MSN, Six Apart and Yahoo) are working together to minimise this.

Weblog use is world-wide. Japan, Korea, China, France and Brazil as demonstrating enthusiastic growth. Tagging is growing in languages outside of English as well, with high adoption rates in asian languages like Chinese and Japanese.

[tag: context]