SLO County News BlogGolf, Wine, Real Estate, Business & Travel NewsSLO Blog Explosion - SLOggersSaturday, November 27, 2004The size of the blogosphere has doubled every five months over the last year and a half, according to blog analysis firm Technorati. 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.In an announcement dated November 18, blog-search company PubSub Concepts claims to already monitor over 6.5 million blogs. Perseus Development, meanwhile, estimates by the end of 2004, there will be 10 million blogs, the vast majority already dead. According to a Perseus study, over 90 percent of blogs are authored by people between the ages of 13 and 29, with nearly 52 percent between the ages of 13 and 19. Weblogs Inc. founder Jason McCabe states "There are millions of blogs, but I would say less than 1 million are updated regularly," So less than 1 percent of the country is blogging, but that figure is going to grow over the next five years to some percentage of the folks who e-mail today. Here in San Luis Obispo County, it doesn't take much effort to find dozens of blogs - most of which appear to be authored by the 13 to 29 age group as reported above. There are dozens of blogs authored by Cal Poly students sharing their academic challenges and lively experiences in SLO, lot's of local teen bloggers to be found at at Blogspot, Live Journal, Xanga and Myspace, and a number of local websites with blogs authored by SLO County residents and businesses. 
For you SLO Bloggers (SLOggers) out there, we found an interesting site recently that helps boost traffic to your site while broadening your mind by exposing it to a lot of interesting randomness. Blog Explosion provides guided web surfing and a clean (though somewhat wordy) interface to keep you coming back. Most of their features circle around the idea of earning credits while browsing other people's blogs to draw more visitors to your own blog. 
If you'd like to keep up with all the interesting stuff we SLOggers have to say, we setup a public feed for your convienence at Bloglines - providing a list of local bloggers who have provided RSS feeds. Feel free to inform us about any SLOggers with RSS feeds we may have missed. SLOggers You can also find a complete list of SLOggers at our new SLO Bloggers directory under the Community menu. This list is automatically created on-the-fly by Bloglines. We also included a few links to SLO Blogs that don't provide RSS feeds. SLOggers - San Luis Obispo County Bloggers Articles referenced: The Blogosphere By the Numbers Read More
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