State Of The Blogsphere
David gives a great update on the momentum in the Blogsphere… This says it all:
We track over 75,000 new weblogs created every day, which means that on average, a new weblog is created every second of every day – and 13.7 million bloggers are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created. In other words, even though there’s a reasonable amount of tire-kicking going on, blogging is growing as a habitual activity.
In October of 2005, when Technorati was only tracking 19 million blogs, about 10.4 million bloggers were still posting 3 months after the creation of their blogs.
Attention vs. Search
Om makes a really interesting point: My.Yahoo.Com is no longer a portal page, but instead an “attention page” which can be and should be leveraged to become the aggregator site for complicated digital life.
I doing so he says in a much shorter form what I was trying to get at yesterday on why Yahoo is heading in the right direction. Google doesn’t hold my attention. Yahoo does.
List Of The Fortune 500 Blogging
This site began as a collaboration between Chris Anderson (Wired Magazine) and Ross Mayfield (Socialtext). A post giving the background of the project is here. Original data compiled by Wired Magazine. You can read the list here.
Getting to #1 On Google…
Read Harry’s post on how he got to be #1 on Google. Lots of SEO wisdom and smarts:
"I’m telling you this so that you will:
- Integrate your weblog into a coherent and scalable sales process that tightly conforms to how your ideal prospect actually buys, and …
- Invest in a URL that clearly telegraphs your unique selling proposition to that prospect…"
Tom On Things Learnt…
Tom has a great list of things learnt in 2005. I especially like his first three:
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Blogging is the most honest form of self-promotion bar none because if you can’t walk the talk you won’t get the clicks.
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Content will be king because all those links have to point to something of value–otherwise they are pointless.
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Every company is part media company–it is both publisher and publication and tells stories all the time.
Aside from being a pretty good bloke, Tom was one of the first hacks to jump ship and become a fulltime blogger.
