So blogs still seem to fascinate me, I am not exactly sure why, you would really think that I would of got over it by now, but I just don't seem to be able too. I really enjoy blogging, and the interaction, and it would seem that alot of other people are starting to enjoy this little craze. Google blog search is, erm..different, but at the same time it can open you up to alot of different blogs and perspectives on things, and that can only be a good thing. When I was looking through, I came across a blog that tracks the growth of blogs through the Technorati website. I was actually amazed at by what extreme numbers blogging is growing, take a look -

- Technorati now tracks over 35.3 Million blogs

- The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago

- On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day

- 19.4 million bloggers (55%) are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created

- Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour

How amazing is that? I mean I know the internet is a huge place, and that you and I aren't actually that special (well you are ), but it is amazing that blogging is so huge, and is growing at such a rapid speed. When you think about it though, how could it not? The thing that amazes me most about blogging, and it does on a daily basis, is the undiscovered talent out there. There are really some amazing and talented people out there and thanks to blogging, we are able to gain just a little insight into how interesting, and what good writers these people actually are. Even if you only have a basic level of writing skills you can still share your views on just about any topic out there, and reach people. That is just wonderful.

Reading more on this topic, I discovered some more interesting facts. In April 2005 Technorati started tracking the primary language of blogs that were tracked. So basically you could choose a blog to read in your own language and filter out the ones that aren't. This allowed Technorati to get a good idea of where the worldwide growth of blogging was taking place. So here are some more interesting facts folks-

- The blogosphere is multilingual, and deeply international

- English, while being the language of the majority of early bloggers, has fallen to less than a third of all blog posts in April 2006.

- Japanese and Chinese language blogging has grown significantly.

- Chinese language blogging, while continuing to grow on an absolute basis, has begun to decline as an overall percentage of the posts that Technorati tracks over the last 6 months

- Japanese, Chinese, English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and German are the languages with the greatest number of posts tracked by Technorati.

- The Korean language is underrepresented in this analysis

- Language breakdown does not necessarily imply a particular country or regional breakdown.

Things like this make me realise just how small I am in the big picture of things. If there are blogs out there which are in languages I can't even read, I am missing out on a huge amount of things. I mean I think I have enough here to keep me going, I guess it's just nice to sometimes put things in perspective. When our children grow up blogging will be an everyday thing that is completely normal, and they will laugh at us oldies that didn't have it when we were kids. The blogging world is a big place....really big, and we're a part of it. How amazing is that! Happy Blogging Folks!