My call to grow the number of active bloggers to 800 million has generated some excellent discussion over the past couple of days. Some on Twitter, some in email and lots in person. Conversation is great. It helps you consider things in different ways, and the interaction helps grow ideas into something bigger. Something that belongs to all of …
As of this writing, BlogPulse is claiming that there are 175,570,843 blogs out there. I have no idea where they’re getting the numbers from, but if we correlate this with the last published number of blogs Technorati was tracking (133,000,000 in 2008), that seems like a reasonable estimate. Facebook is claiming 800,000,000 active users (defined as logging …
We just don’t know it yet. Social media is just blogging with a few extra tricks and some gimmicks. It’s also a little less intimidating and user-friendly as a result of that. Social media platforms are just company controlled blogging platforms Think about it for a second. Everyone knows how to blog, because everyone knows how …