Blogosphere - Blog growth

[see: Technorati summary]

1. Technorati was tracking over 14.2 Million weblogs, and over 1.3 billion links in July 2005
   
2. The blogosphere continues to double about every 5.5 months
   
3. A new blog is created about every second, there are over 80,000 created daily
   
4. About 55% of all blogs are active, and that has remained a consistent statistic for at least a year
   
5. About 13% of all blogs are updated at least weekly
   
6. more people are blogging from their camera-enabled mobile phones
   
7. growth has not only occurred in the US, but there has been a lot of blog growth in Japan, Korea, China, France, and Brazil