STATE OF THE LIVE WEB: Response

Whilst the U.S. and World economies have been failing issues in the news recently, along with the failed administration of President George W. Bush, according to David Sifry's (founder of Technorati, the web's leading blog search engine) 2007 blog post titled, STATE OF THE LIVE WEB, "The state of the Blogosphere is strong, and is maturing as an influential and important part of the web."

In Sifry's 2007 blog post, he marks explosive growth in the Blogosphere, from overall posts, to overall blogs to the marked increase of splogs as well. Sifry states, "Blogs continue to become more and more viable news and information outlets", and follows up by suggesting that users are now blurring the line between conventional and mainstay news outlets (such as the New York Times), and their blogosphere counterparts.

Globally, Japanese edged out English (37% to 36% respectively) as the language of choice for bloggers on the web, and the top 10 charts also introduced a new language bloggers language of choice, Farsi, marking the entry of the first Middle Eastern dialect since the inception of the blogosphere.

Tags (the means of linking blog keywords to posts or references outside of the blog, demonstrated with the purple highlighted text in this post) have also becoming increasingly popular. Nearly 35% of all users adopt the usage of tags in their posts.

So with all of that layed out, how does it all come together? This post is outdated, and with the explosive rate of growth of blogging (although the article also suggests that growth was levelling off in many ways aswell), it is unlikely that the numbers suggested in this article from 2007 are accurate. However, that is not to say that the trends remain the same and as a recent blog initiate, who started their own blog not too long ago, it is easy to why the blogosphere is growing so rapidly. The ability to seamlessly transition from article to article and the inter-connectedness of the blogosphere, has become and will continue to be one of the fastest growing web 2.0 techologies and within some years, may be the leading means of acquiring information.