State of the Blogosphere

David Sifry publishes a quarterly report about the state of blogging. Here are his results for the most-recent quarter (published 8/1/2005):

Technorati was tracking over 14.2 Million weblogs, and over 1.3 billion links in July 2005
The blogosphere continues to double about every 5.5 months
A new blog is created about every second, there are over 80,000 created daily
About 55% of all blogs are active, and that has remained a consistent statistic for at least a year
About 13% of all blogs are updated at least weekly

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