The State Of The Blogosphere

David Sifry has posted an updated state of the blogosphere report with some wonderful graphs and figures.

Here is the summary:

• Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs


• The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months


• It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago


• On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day


• 13.7 million bloggers are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created


• Spings (Spam Pings) can sometimes account for as much as 60% of the total daily pings Technorati receives


• Sophisticated spam management tools eliminate the spings and find that about 9% of new blogs are spam or machine generated


• Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour


• Over 81 Million posts with tags since January 2005, increasing by 400,000 per day


• Blog Finder has over 850,000 blogs, and over 2,500 popular categories have attracted a critical mass of topical bloggers