Blogful Statistics

A few people have written in with suggestions for where I might find the statistics I’ve been looking for.
Meg Hourihan writes:

I don’t know if there is any one place that has the kind of blogging stats you’re looking for, but I’d like to see them too. When we were raising funding at Pyra (spring ’00) we crunched some numbers and came up with one interesting stat: Blogger users averaged 2.5 updates *a day* their pages. That was total users, we didn’t do any filter to remove inactive users when we got that number, so I imagine a more realistic number might be higher.

Michel Benevento suggests we take a look at some Yaysoft stats:

you’ll see that you can view a couple of thousand different blogs by latest entry, total entries, average entry per day of, and so on. It uses data from weblogs.com.

Of course, then there’s my own special scientifical journalistical approach to stats: Skip over them when other people cite them and make them up when I need them. It really works. Why, a recent study shows that this approach brings a 68.7% increase in the quality of information. Really.

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