David Sifry of Technorati issues a biannual “state of the blogophere” report. The latest report indicates a decrease in new blogs per day from 160K per day in June to 100K this October. Sifry attributes the decrease to improvements in the detection and removal of spam blogs or “splogs” from Technorati’s tracking system.
I was most interested to see that bloggers still choose to link primarily to mainstream media (MSM) outlets such as the New York Times as sources of hard news and information. That flies in the face of predictions that the blogosphere will crush mainstream journalism.
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