David Sifry reports today on the state of the blogosphere, which continues to be extremely healthy. It has grown one hundredfold in the last three years with more than 50 million bloggers today, with 175,000 more bloggers daily. It's rate of doubling has only slightly slowed since Technorati began tracking in October 2006, from once every four months to once every 6.5 months today.
Spammers continue to be the rapidly emerging communications channel's biggest threat. Sifry reports that 70 percent of the pings Technorati receives are from spammers and up to 8 percent of them get past the company's filters.
To me, this trend reconfirms my belief that blogging itself is normalizing. There was a time when having a telephone or a TV or internet mail was news. Now it is not because it is so commonplace. I think this is what already has started happening to blogging and it should.
My vision is that blogging becomes a nonissue. People will start new jobs and get their desks, computers, telephone, email and blog accounts and they will be trusted and expected to use these tools to do their jobs.
The revolution is not in the blog, it is in two-way conversations that empower communities of users more and monolithic organizations less.
