Blogsphere is alive and well

CyberJournalist.net points to Technorati founder David Sifry's latest report on the State of the Blogsphere. Among the findings:

* The number of new blogs continues to grow. "On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day."

* 55% of bloggers are still posting away three months after starting their blogs.

* "3.9 million bloggers update their blogs at least weekly."

* The amount of daily posting, according to tracking figures from Technorati, indicates
that over 1.2 million posts are made each day, which translates to 50,000 posts an hour.

* The amount of posting tends to increase during major news events.

Earlier reports, from October 2004, March 2005, August 2005 and February 2006, are also available for purposes of comparison.