Highlights From The Live Web Report

David Sifry, from Technorati, released a new Live Web Report this week. The term Live Web is described by Doc Searls as the syndicated Web: “That means every time something is posted or updated, a notification goes out, informing the world about it.” This syndication is often referring to blogs and RSS technology, but the Live Web also includes the fast growing online social networks and media.

The report is a quite detailed, but here is a brief summary of some key facts:

• Technorati now tracks over 70 million blogs
• 120,000 new blogs are created each day
• There are about 1.5 million new blog postings per day
• Blogs are gaining ground against mainstream media. Of the top 100 most popular sites, 22 are blogs.
• The Japanese language leads blog posts with 37% of the content, while English is close behind at 36%. Chinese is a distant third with 8%.

Blogs are continuing to grow and represent a major part of the the Live Web. However, Sifry’s report does indicate that the rate of growth is beginning to slow from the last few years when the number of blogs was doubling every 5 to 7 months.