11 June, 2003 12:21 AM
Blogcount attempts to answer some of these questions and more. The results are staggering....here's a taste.
Blogger alone has 1.5million registered users. Their number of users grew 14% in the 60 days after 11 March!
Blogstreet's list of blogs grew 27% in a similar period and Technorati tripled the number of blogs it watched in a recent two month period.
Live Journal has 1,090,084 total accounts, with over half of them presently active. Of these 62.2% are Female users and 37.4% are male! (which is pretty different to the God Blog Gender Survey that I did where I found that at least 54% of Christian bloggers were Male!)
The median update rate of weblogs.com pingers is every three days.
Poland now has 100,000 blogs, again 62% are written by women, 75% are under 20 years old.
Iran has 12,000 blogs, but here 76% are male.
During the recent War, 4% of Americans got their war coverage from Weblogs.
This Site has crawled 437,986 blogs. In that list 205,898 are written in English. After that the most popular languages were Portuguese, Polish, Farsi, Spanish, German, Italian, French and Icelandic(in that order). 101,831 are hosted with Blogspot, 14,841 are with MT, 14,172 are with Pitas and 13,106 are with Blogger
Wow - those are some amazing statistics....the amount of data that is flying around the net purely from blogs is massive. You've got to wonder how useful alot of the data is, and what impact so many people putting their ideas, dreams, feelings etc out into the datasphere is having on our crazy little world!?
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There's a big difference between 54% and 76%, Bene! (Percentage of male bloggers in the Christian and Iranian blogospheres, respectively.)
Fifty-four percent is only just over half, which isn't that great of a gap between male and female Christians unless the number of anonymous-sex bloggers like yourself are quite large.
In any case, blogs run by women are among my top priorities each day, and seem to be more gracefully written at times than their male counterparts.
John Adams » 11 June, 2003 1:23 PM
Good point John, however while I found 54% of God bloggers were male, I only found that 26% were female......the remainder were either group blogs (9%) or anon and therefore I could not be sure of their gender.
So....we can probably assume that at least 60%, perhaps more of God bloggers are male. Its still not in the range of Iran, but its certainly out of proportion with the wider world of blogging!!
Darren » 11 June, 2003 2:04 PM
Blogger/blogspot statistics might be unreliable because there are many abandoned blogs on Blogger. I tried typing in names at random such as agape.blogspot.com, jesus.blogspot.com, god.blogspot.com, godalmighty.blogspot.com, bible.blogspot.com, holybible.blogspot.com, saviour.blogspot.com, redeemer.blogspot.com, eagleswings.blogspot.com -- and I found many blogs abandoned after only a single post, dating back to 2001 or 2002. One wonders what happened to all those people.
Especially mark.blogspot.com -- he wrote, 15 July 2001, "This blog thing is a great idea. I get the feeling that im gonna use it alot". No posts after that. What happened???
irene » 12 June, 2003 6:35 PM
A blog is a tool for managing content -- and content is NOT going to disappear. So unless a better tool comes along, blogging is going to be here a while. Val http://www.valerianplanet.com/
Valerian » 24 October, 2003 1:27 AM
There is a Persian website called:
http://www.persianblog.com
The site is entirely in Persian and it hosts more than 8000 Persian bloggers. I am not sure if this has been included in the survey or not.
vahid » 3 December, 2003 2:38 AM
A couple of things jumped out at me.
The number of younger users and the number of female users at LiveJournal.
What will be interesting is to find out if 18+ years olds drop out after the six month period or keep going.
And, how do we cross the language barrier (other than babelfish) to communicate ourside our own 'tribe.'?
Why am I not surprised the god-bloggers look more like the Iranians gender-wise?
Why are believers so slow in grasping this medium?
Bene Diction » 11 June, 2003 8:38 AM