{"id":2730,"date":"2005-03-16T21:35:22","date_gmt":"2005-03-17T03:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2005\/03\/16\/does-it-seem-crowded-in-here\/"},"modified":"2022-05-06T15:40:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T20:40:54","slug":"does-it-seem-crowded-in-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2005\/03\/16\/does-it-seem-crowded-in-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Does it seem crowded in here?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you seen this?<\/a><\/p>\n

Technorati is now tracking over 7.8 million weblogs, and 937 million links. That’s just about double the number of weblogs tracked in October 2004. In fact, the blogosphere is doubling in size about once every 5[*] months. It has already done so at this pace four times, which means that in the last 20 months, the blogosphere has increased in size by over 16 times.<\/div>\n

*This number is corrected in a later post<\/a>; it should be “9 months.” But the point is still impressive.<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s from Sifry’s Alerts, the blog by Dave Sifrey, the CEO and founder of Technorati<\/a>. He goes on to write…<\/p>\n

We are currently seeing about 30,000 – 40,000 new weblogs being created each day, depending on the day. Compared to the past, this is well over double the rate of change in October, [2004] when there were about 15,000 new weblogs created each day.<\/div>\n

Regarding posting volume<\/a>, Technorati yields this…<\/p>\n

On average, Technorati is tracking about 500,000 posts per day, which is about 5.8 posts per second. In October 2004, we were seeing about 400,000 posts per day.<\/div>\n

If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number and diversity of blogs, and if you’re getting a little oversaturated by media attention focused on the phenomenon, these numbers will help you understand why, even if they won’t necessarily make you feel better about it.<\/p>\n

At some point, people without blogs will be regarded in a similar light as folks who don’t have televisions. They’re probably harmless, but, really, how would you have a conversation with them?<\/p>\n

Or…the sheer impossibility of being heard amongst a billion other bloggers will cause a backlash that will result in the simultaneous bankruptcy of Movable Type, WordPress, GoogleBlogger and…yes…Technorati, and the former A-List bloggers will be regarded in a similar light as the 17th century Dutch tulip speculators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New blogs are being created at an insane rate, as are new postings. What’s it all mean? Beats me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-msm-journalism-etc","category-navel-gazing","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10223,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions\/10223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}