Posted at 9:56am on Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
Fascinating (stats below summarise the report):
- 70 million weblogs
- About 120,000 new weblogs each day, or…
- 1.4 new blogs every second
- 3000-7000 new splogs (fake, or spam blogs) created every day
- Peak of 11,000 splogs per day last December
- 1.5 million posts per day, or…
- 17 posts per second
- Growing from 35 to 75 million blogs took 320 days
- 22 blogs among the top 100 blogs among the top 100 sources linked to in Q4 2006 - up from 12 in the prior quarter
- Japanese the #1 blogging language at 37%
- English second at 33%
- Chinese third at 8%
- Italian fourth at 3%
- Farsi a newcomer in the top 10 at 1%
- English the most even in postings around-the-clock
- Tracking 230 million posts with tags or categories
- 35% of all February 2007 posts used tags
- 2.5 million blogs posted at least one tagged post in February
Posted at 10:16pm on Thursday, April 26th, 2007
While I wilf hideously the TV is currently on in the background, showing Channel 4’s The Human Footprint. I’ve no idea where they get their stats, but they’ve just stated a remarkable ‘fact’:
There are now more households in Britain that own two cars than own two novels
Is that really true? Christ.
Posted at 9:31pm on Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Like a Schott’s Miscellany on the Internet. What amazes me is the guy posts 3 of these a day… Futility Closet.
Posted at 4:20am on Saturday, September 14th, 2002
Just started watching the ICC champions Trophy (Zimbabwe v India today) and was looking for previous stats. Went to cricket4.com and found that they have a Java applet with the entire Hawkeye stats for the past England/India series!
How fantastic is that?:
http://www.channel4.com/sport/cricket/analyst/hawkeye/advanced.html
Unfortunately it really shows up the English tactics in that series…