Technnorati monitors the growth of Blogging. Clicking on the title above will take you to an interesting graph.
- Technorati now tracks over 35.3 Million blogs
- The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months
- It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
- On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day
- 19.4 million bloggers (55%) are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created
- Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour
This rapid growth shows why blogging can be used by educators - its is already being used by many of the learners. Some may not even know they are reading a blog. By using this tool learners can see how rubbish can be added to the web by anyone and will become more critical of things they read on the web.
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