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The State of the Blogosphere, another excuse for people to misquote numbers

Started by Duncan Riley · 8 months ago

Love Dave Sifrys reports. Hate the fact that there are soooooo many people out there who don’t know the difference between tracked and actual and use these reports as being indicative of the entire blogosphere, like Mark Evans:
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  • Martin

    3 years ago

    Phew, did a quick check when I blogged that and I'm happy to say I didn't fall for the misquote. :-)

    I guess many folks simply assume Technorati is the be-all and end-all of blog tracking - when based on the numbers 35m/200m they only cover around 20% of what's out there.
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  • Tim FInin

    3 years ago

    Looking at data from bloglines users, we've concluded that

    - The feeds that really matter (FTRMs) are a very small fraction of blogosphere
    - FTRMs double each year, not each six months
    - Most users follow a modest number of feeds

    For details, see http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2006/04/18/pre...
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