Blogging is still quite new to me. And as such, I am spending much of my free time out looking at other blogs, mostly artist’s. This blogging thing has opened up a whole ‘nother universe for me. I live in a very rural area and so often feel quite isolated as an artist. My art group has members spread over a 150 mile radius. It’s a real trick to get even a small portion of us together. In the summer, I do artfairs and have an extended artist family with them. But when winter sets in, and the cold snowy winds are a blowin’ I get lonely. So what a wonderful gift all these blogsites are for me. Kinda like manna from heaven.
My latest discovery is Katherine Tyrrell’s blog, Making a Mark. Her site deals with a variety of well researched subjects on art and the art business. Hers is the second blog that I have subscribed to.
Her Feb 2, 2007 post, called What Happens When You Annoy eBay Sellers was extremely interesting. eBay has recently made some substantial changes to their policies which may have a dramatic impact on sellers. I sell through eBay, so it was nice to get so much information on whats going on.
When I find a site I really like, I tend to dig through it pretty good. The other post that I found really interesting that day was an older post from Aug 22, 2006 Why Artists Should Blog. The statistics on the state of the blogosphere were … well mind boggling. Like:
- 175,000 new blogs are created daily, 8% of which are spam blogs or ’splogs’
- there are (as of Aug 2006) 50+million blogs
- they’ve been doubling in number about every 5-7 months.
Again this is old news. But it had a real wow factor for a newbie like me. So I decided to go digging and see what statistics I could dig up that were a wee bit more current. Unfortunatly there wasn’t much to be found. David Sifry, the founder of Technorati would faithfully publish “State of the Blogosphere” reports every few months. But as of April 2007, Technorati has a new CEO and no new reports have been published.
Digital Inspiration reports in October 2007 that currently
- Technorati was tracking 108 million blogs
- 120,000 new blogs are created daily
- Most popular language is Japanese folowed by English
- and 1.5 million blog posts are published daily.
There is just so much information and people to meet that are only a mouse click or two away. No wonder blogging is such a huge pastime. Oh, I do have one more statistics for you. I found this on Pew Interent Reports dated 12/19/07
- 28% of online teens have blogs and that the blogging growth is fueled almost entirely by girls.
