If the Blogosphere...

...is as new to you as it is to me, you might find the following interesting. The quotation is from May 2006:

"Technorati currently tracks 35.3 million weblogs, and the blogosphere we track continues to double about every 6 months...The blogosphere is over 60 times bigger than it was only 3 years ago...Technorati currently tracks over 75,000 new weblogs created every day, which means that on average, a new weblog is created every second of every day - and 19.4 million bloggers (55%) are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created. That's an increase both absolute and relative terms over just 3 months ago, when only 50.5% or 13.7 million blogs were active...Posting volume tracked by Technorati is now over 1.2 million posts per day, which is about 50,000 posts per hour...Something that may come as a surprise (at least to the English-speaking world) is that English isn't the biggest language of the blogosphere. In fact, English isn't even the primary language of one third of all posts that Technorati tracks anymore."