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<title>Balancing Acts</title>
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   Kevin Burton responds to David Sifry's latest State of the Blogosphere post, unconvinced by the claim that there are now fifty million extant blogs . . .


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<title>Nothing Old Can Stay</title>
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   Here are some statistics on the percentage of total bloggers for the years 2003 and 2005, broken down by age group. . . .


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<title>The Distributed Population</title>
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   Here are the population distribution figures for gender and age in our representative sample of hosted blogs. . . .


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<title>New Blogs In Old Skins</title>
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   The Washington Post yesterday ran an article on elderblogs.&nbsp; Makes me wonder . . .


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<title>Blogs Count</title>
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   The Wall Street Journal tackles the difficult issue of blog statistics in the article "Measuring the Impact of Blogs Requires More Than Counting." Carl Bialik makes many good points, specifically as to why people are obsessed with counting blogs but not web pages . . .


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<title>Ump Teen</title>
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   LiveJournal alone has <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/stats.bml">1.6 million teen blogs</a>, and the mainstream press has begun to write about teen safety. MSN joins in with a great article, one every parent of teens should read - "<!--StartFragment --><a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7668788/">Kids, blogs and too much information:&nbsp;Children reveal more online than parents know</a>." Besides offering good advice to parents about refereeing their teen's Internet usage, the article offers some interesting statistics . . .


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<title>Hosted Blogs Erupting</title>
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   I have written a new study on web logs:&nbsp; <a href="blogsurvey/geyser.html">The Blogging Geyser</a><?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = CD /?> .&nbsp; We estimate that there are&nbsp;<!--StartFragment -->31.6 million hosted blogs on twenty services, growing to 53.4 million by year end. . . .


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<title>Flipping over Single Digits</title>
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   I continue to be amused that I started a blog reporting on how rarely most people update their blogs, only to find myself rarely updating.  The problem with blogging for work is that it is . . .


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<title>We Are the (Blogging) World</title>
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   Our travels this time around take us to <a href="http://www.elise.com/web/a/an_overview_of_the_weblog_tools_market.php">Elise Bauer's blog</a>, where she attempts to analyze market share and size through Google. <a href="blogsurvey/blog/040131ingooglewetrust.html">As we discussed earlier</a>, using Google to analyze information is useful, but can result in some confusion. . . .


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<title>Blogging and the BBC</title>
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   As part of the BBC's coverage of the Democratic National Convention, they've dispatched a reporter (Kevin Anderson) who will serve as their resident blogger for the event, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3927801.stm">posting</a> about things he sees in and around the Convention and the city of Boston. His first entry, wryly, covers the "Bloggers Breakfast" that the Democratic Party threw on Monday morning. . . .


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