Blogosphere sees healthy growth

The web's love affair with blogging shows no signs of abating.

Did you know ….
…every day 100,000 new blogs are created?
…160,000 were created every day in June 2006?
…1.3 million posts are made?
…postings intensify around significant events?
…English and Japanese remain the two most popular languages in the blogosphere?
…despite problems for bloggers in China, Chinese remains at number three?
…Farsi - a Persian language spoken in Iran and Afghanistan - has moved into the top ten languages of the blogosphere for the first time?
…Technorati – a blog tracking firm - is now tracking more than 57 million blogs?
…around 55% of the blogs are 'active' - updated at least every three months?


Technorati ranks blogs depending on how many sites link to it.
The blogging elite - weblogs which have more than 500 other blogs linking to them - number about 4,000.
Many of these blogs have been in existence for several years and tend to have new posts at least twice a day.

Read the BBC text here.