Influx

Technorati has just published its latest report on the state of the blogspace, its findings make for interesting reading.

The highlights:

- 19.6 milion blogs
- A blog is created every second
- 8-20% of blogs are splogs or fakes
- 9 posts are created a second

What’s most interesting is that growth in postings per day seems to be in decline. Postings peaked in July with the London bombings at 1.2 million/day, but are now around the 600,000 level. Although Katrina did create an increase in the number of blog posts, this increase has not been sustained and the volume has fallen back.

Blogging is not going away, but it does seem that its explosive growth appears to be slowing down a little.