Weblog explosion!

This has been widely reported, but it's too mind-boggling to pass up - David Sifry of Technorati (a site that tracks which weblogs are linking to which other weblogs) reports:

"One year ago, when I started Technorati on a single server in my basement, we were adding between 2,000-3,000 new weblogs each day, not counting the people who were updating sites we were already tracking. In March of this year, when we switched over to a 5 server cluster, we were keeping up with about 4,000-5,000 new weblogs each day. Right now, we're adding 8,000-9,000 new weblogs every day, not counting the 1.2 Million weblogs we already are tracking. That means that on average, a brand new weblog is created every 11 seconds. We're also seeing about 100,000 weblogs update every day as well, which means that on average, a weblog is updated every 0.86 seconds."

Wow!

My colleague Josh Larios wonders how many of those weblogs actually get updated regularly. An excellent question, and probably someone's upcoming PhD thesis topic.