Posts Tagged ‘TechCrunch’

Blogging is one of the most significant sectors of user created content on the web today. Starting a blog is as easy as opening a Hotmail account, and most web users have access to at least one blogging outlet - be it through a social networking profile, a blogging forum, or perhaps even a personal blog page. What is significant is the rate at which the volume of this content is increasing - far more quickly than people are uploading videos to Youtube, or indeed any other form of user published content. The numbers sum up the situation pretty clearly: 175,000 new blogs launched every day, 1.6 million total blog posts daily (equating to 18 updates per second), and over 200 million total blogs - not counting MySpace and other social networking profile blogs. Question is: how to find and keep up to date with quality and relevant content, without spending every waking minute drowning in the endless sea of constant posts? Well, luckily for us Technorati has a solution…