Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere is being released this week, one segment each day. For the first time, they’ve surveyed bloggers directly about the role of blogging in their lives, the tools, time, and resources used to produce their blogs, and how blogging has impacted them personally, professionally, and financially. Interesting stuff. The majority of … [Read more...]
Blog Business Summit Slides
Setting Goals and Measuring SuccessThe slides from my session with Mary Hodder are posted on her blogIt has three case studies and some excellent ideas from Mary on ways to measure the blogosphere. … [Read more...]
PR needs to respond to both media and bloggers
The media revolution rolls onSteve Rubel on Google's refusal to speak to CNet for a year raises good points about how vital it is to respond. And that includes bloggers.David Berlind at ZDNet said it very clearly in this post PR and blogs.But if the PR community doesn't also reinvent itself to keep pace with the media revolution by responding to the fact … [Read more...]
Blogs Still Growing At Exponential Rate
Consumer Generated Media Is Important to PRHere are some of the latest stats on the blogosphere from Dave Sifry* Technorati was tracking over 14.2 Million weblogs, and over 1.3 billion links in July 2005 * The blogosphere continues to double about every 5.5 months * A new blog is created about every second, there are over 80,000 created daily * About 55% of all blogs are … [Read more...]
Corporate blogs in the Long Tail
Some excellent stats on blogs and blog postingsDavid Sifry has a great series of posts on the State of the blogosphere and the long tail.Over the past few days he has posted and analyzed stats from Technorati on how many blogs are being tracked, how often posts are made and the influence of blogs.The data on blogs in the long tail is particularly … [Read more...]
