Everybody is doing it. Blogging that is.
David Sifry has posted his quarterly round up of the blogging world. The figures are simply staggering.

* As of October 2005, Technorati is now tracking 19.6 Million weblogs
* The total number of weblogs tracked continues to double about every 5 months
* The blogosphere is now over 30 times as big as it was 3 years ago, with no signs of letup in growth
* About 70,000 new weblogs are created every day
* About a new weblog is created each second
* 2% - 8% of new weblogs per day are fake or spam weblogs
* Between 700,000 and 1.3 Million posts are made each day
* About 33,000 posts are created per hour, or 9.2 posts per second
* An additional 5.8% of posts (or about 50,000 posts/day) seen each day are from spam or fake blogs, on average


At this rate, I figure we're about 3 to 6 years away from one blog for every person on the planet.

The spam problem is becoming significant. It's become way too easy to create robot driven spam blogs (Splogs) on Blogspot to generate Google page rank for dubious websites. And so yet another medium is polluted by the excesses of the few. [from: JB Ecademy]

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