Technorati. State of the Blogosphere 2009.

November 7th, 2009 • View Comments Blogs, Trends
Tags: Blogging, Business, Diagram, Social Influence Marketing, Survey, Technorati, Tools, Trends, World

It has almost become a tradion. Each year Blog search engine/directory technorati presents the results of its survey State of the Blogosphere as keynote on the Blogworld Expo. Blogs lately have come under pressure by microblogging services such as Twitter & Co, making them almost like a weird secondlifesque hobby from 2004. I don’t have to add that I love my twitter account, posterous and Facebook – but nothing feels like a good old WordPress blog.

Technorati obviously agrees in this five part series which I found on Brian Solis’ blog. I found a couple of finding particularly interesting.

Finding 1: Bloggers are male, in their thirties and they aren’t blogging for so long

Finding 2: Personal musings still are the most blogged about topics before technology

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Evolution. The U.S. Blogosphere 2008-2013.

Oktober 29th, 2009 • View Comments Blogs, Trends
Tags: Blogs, Diagram, Market, Tools, Trends, US, World

As a European it is sad to see that the overwhelming majority of insightful data and statistics comes from the U.S. and is mainly U.S. exclusive. This one here is well, but it gives a good sense of what lies ahead in Europe (in about 2-3 years). eMarketer has estimated the number of blogs in the U.S. over a 5-year period from 2008-2013 in a study they have just published. According to this study the number of active blog authors will rise from about 25 to about 38 million. While the majority of U.S. online users will read blogs by 2013.

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