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 Thursday, April 5, 2007
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Doc Searls - Thursday, April 5, 2007 
4/5/2007; 11:08:40 AM (reads: 6609, responses: 1)
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Where it is 
| | Hanging at the Thursday blog meeting here at the Berkman Center. We're talking about placeblogs. Naturally we have a Cambridge/Boston focus here; but I had to brag on Edhat and the list of Santa Barbarians on the right there. |
Quotes du jour
| | "isms" are for people who don't have blogs. |
| | Quid pro quo is how control freaks have relationships. |
| | These are lines I'm getting from Adriana on the phone (Skype, actually) right now. I'll fill in the contexts later. Just taking live notes here. |
Life in the surpassing lane
| | For what it's worth (and I think it's a lot) the distinctions between the Static Web and the Live Web are sharper than the ones between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. I don't say that to knock Web 2.0, but to recognize that the basic distinction between static and live is an especially useful one. Blogs are not just sites. They are also journals — live ones, to be exact. (Significantly, Brad Fitzpatrick named his blog system LiveJournal.) When you save a blog post, Technorati knows about it and indexes it in as little as 60 seconds or less. I assume Google Blogsearch does the same. Meanwhile Google's main Static Web search engine indexes the entire Web at a less than live pace. This isn't a bad thing at all; just a different thing. This difference is so sharp that Google Blogsearch gives you a choice between "Search Blogs" and "Search the Web". |
| | About 120,000 new weblogs each day, or... |
| | 1.4 new blogs every second |
| | 3000-7000 new splogs (fake, or spam blogs) created every day |
| | Peak of 11,000 splogs per day last December (see here) |
| | 1.5 million posts per day, or... |
| | Growing from 35 to 75 million blogs took 320 days |
| | 22 blogs among the top 100 blogs among the top 100 sources linked to in Q4 2006 — up from 12 in the prior quarter |
| | Japanese the #1 blogging language at 37% |
| | Farsi a newcomer in the top 10 at 1% |
| | English the most even in postings around-the-clock |
| | Tracking 230 million posts with tags or categories |
| | 35% of all February 2007 posts used tags |
| | 2.5 million blogs used at least one taggeded post in February |
| | As a bottom line to all these stats, David thanks Dave Winer for his foundational work: His creation and support for systems like weblogs.com and open formats like RSS were critical in building the early infrastructure that Technorati relies upon and helps to support. |
| | Disclosure: I'm on Technorati's advisory board. History: Technorati was born when David created it to help him research a feature about blogs that he and I were writing for Linux Journal in late 2002. (I just noticed that the first credit we gave in that piece was to Dave as well — who in turn gave credit to Tim Berners-Lee. Giving credit still matters. We stand on each others' shoulders here. Also speaking of which, the term World Live Web was coined years ago by my son Allen.) |
| | Also good to see that Technorati hasn't sold out and isn't for sale. I can't see any bigger company doing a better job with Technorati or its essential work. |
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Robert Solorzano - Re: Monday, April 3, 2007
4/5/2007; 12:21:42 PM (reads: 943, responses: 0)
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