Dave Sifry digesting his technorati data to bring you a two part essay (so far) on the number of new blogs and the frequency of posts. Visit Sifry's Alerts to see further installments.

"On average, Technorati is tracking about 500,000 posts per day, which is about 5.8 posts per second. In October 2004, we were seeing about 400,000 posts per day. It is interesting to note that posting volume suffered a decline during the months of November and December, 2004. A large part of this decline is the reduction in postings about US politics after the election in early November."

So at least I'm not the only one who went through the blogging blues over Christmas & came back strong in the new year!!

via BoingBoing

Update 3/19 - Part 3: The A-List and the Long Tail. Power and influence blog style.