ClickZ’s The Blogosphere By the Numbers discusses trends identified by several companies and projects.

According to David Sifry, Technorati’s chief executive, the current number of blogs is now over 8 times bigger than the 500,000 blogs it measured in June, 2003. The company tracked 3 million blogs as of the first week of July, and has added over 1 million blogs to its stable since then. Meanwhile, Pew Internet & American Life reports a new weblog is created every 5.8 seconds. That roughly translates into 15,000 new blogs every day.

The article also points out that blog traffic spikes when certain “web communicable events” occur — like the Howard Dean scream and the Kryptonite lock debacle.

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