Entries Tagged as 'Technorati'

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Tagging - The Basics

Everyone has heard of tagging. Some of you are already doing it. For those of you who aren’t yet “tagging fools”, read on.
What is Tagging?
Tagging is a way to organize information. If you use Gmail, then you’ve seen tagging. Google is sneaky, though, and calls tags “labels”. You can assign multiple labels [...]

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

A Beginner’s guide to Technorati

What is Technorati?
All good guides start here. Technorati indexes just about all the blogs on the planet - a daunting task if ever there was one. Basically they keep track of each and every post and link out there - so they know who’s posting, what they’re posting about, and even who is [...]

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere

Technorati’s quarterly State of the Blogosphere is back again.Here are a few of the highlights:

Over 50 million blogs tracked
The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months.
175,000 new blogs are created every day
That’s 2 blogs per second.
70% of pings are spam
There are 1.6 million posts per day
That’s 18.6 posts per second.

These numbers are nothing short [...]