Happy blog-a-versary! This week is the tenth anniversary of the coining of the term that makes some of us giddy and others recoil in horror: blogging.
If you subscribe to the view that says the term was coined by Jorn Barger on December 17, 1997, today’s the day. It was on that day that he combined the word “web” and “log” to describe his personal journal online, according to blogging lore. Back then, the number of blogs on the web varied, with some citing numbers in the mere double digits.
The trend has exploded since then, with new blogs coming online every day.
The last “State of the Live Web” (previously called “State of the Blogosphere”) report in April of this year stated that the number of blogs tracked through the site topped 72 million.
That number was more than double the 35 million tracked blogs in April of 2006, and nine times the number in 2005.
As easy-to-install (and even easier-to-use) tools for blogging become more commonplace, that number continues to rise.
Technorati has noted, however, that the trend has begun to slow a bit—the number of new blogs is taking longer to double now than in the past, although the site is still tracking some 1.5 million blog posts per day.
Of course, blogging may be approaching its peak now. Gartner predicted last December that the trend would reach its max capacity during 2007 and begin to level off shortly thereafter, because those who would be interested have already gotten started.
Photo by clubconnected.co.uk.
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