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The Friday Fillip
…[T]he number of known blogs, now somewhere around 25 million, has been doubling every 5½ months… At this rate, in August 2009, the number of known blogs will more or less equal the population of the world.
Ongoing: Everybody’s Blogging
For a seriously detailed look at the blogosphere, see Sifry’s Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, February 2006 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth.
Or… it’s really contracting, because, according to The Basement, the explosive growth seems to be spam blogs, or “splogs.” As Gresham’s Law states: bad money drives out good.