“A reinvigoration of civics”

NPR (National Public Radio) has a neat interview with David Sifry: Search Site Tracks Blogosphere’s Rapid Expansion. David gives a few interesting facts about the blogosphere (he’s the creator of Technorati.com, the famous blog aggregator site that helps users “sift, search and sort through blogs”).

• 175, 000 blogs are created each day
• There are about 50 million blogs in the blogosphere
• The number 1 blog on Technorati is not even in English; it’s by someone who could be considered “the Paris Hilton of China”

A “state of the blogosphere” report from Technorati founder Dave Sifry says 175,000 new blogs are created each day. Sifry finds that about 55 percent continue blogging on a regular basis. The blogosphere is doubling in size every five to seven months. Sifry offers more numbers and observations in a conversation with Scott Simon.