> > i'm participating in the authorship of a paper that does an extended
> > statistical breakdown of what's "out there" in the blog world these
> > days... and something like 80+% of the blogs being produced (that we
> > can find) are at blogger/blogspot...
>
> This number seems too high. According to the Blog Census, only about 57%
> of 'hosted' blogs are hosted at at Blogger, Blogger Brazil or Blogspot
> <URL: http://www.blogcensus.net/?page=tools >.
>
> This excludes blogs using standalone tools, so the actual number should
> be even lower.
it depends on what you call a blog and what you don't. :)
also realize that the number of sites hosted at blogger has been climbing
astronomically, as best we can tell...
from taking a peek at the blogcensus site (which i hadn't previously seen
- thanks for the link), it looks like their methodology was to trace blog
links - blog social networks, basically. thinking about this in terms of
Kleinberg's hub/spoke theory, there are likely "islands" of blogs that
such a method would never run across at all.
one thing we're noticing about the "common blog" is that most of the damn
things don't have links at all. a HUGE percentage of them don't link to
ANY other bloggers, or even have links to other sites. this would TOTALLY
wreck the stats of a link-crawler - it'd never find those blogs, as most
of them don't get links from google.
i'd argue that a link-crawler is totally the wrong approach to getting
accurate stats on a mega-site like blogger - it works much better to get a
manual dump of the blogs hosted there that are updated, as weblo.gs
does....
elijah
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