Another link from Newmark's Door. (ABC News)
The reason for asking that question is the announcement this week by blog tracker Technorati (a great site, by the way, for continuously following the state of the Zeitgeist), in its annual State of the Blogosphere report that the number of blogs in the world has jumped from 7.5 million in March to 14.2 million today.
In other words, in appears the blogosphere is doubling in size every five months. Or even more staggering -- a new blog is being created out there somewhere every second.
In the time it took just to read that excerpt 10 blogs were created. Now go read the whole thing while a couple hundred get started.
That is amazing, of course. But the fact is that many blogs fizzle out after a few months, weeks, or days. Only a relative handful of that 14 million are updated daily or even semi-daily (as in the title of Brad DeLong's blog). Also a relative few are worth reading. The interesection of those two sets is nonempty, but certainly less than their union.
Among economics blogs, the Wall Street Journal has a good rundown of the best. Our friend Mark Thoma even gets quoted:
"On a professional level, I've been making contacts that I would have never made before," says Mark Thoma, associate professor of economics at the University of Oregon, Eugene. Mr. Thoma is also a self-described left-of-center Democrat and author of economistsview.typepad.com.
Indeed. I can say the same.
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