Sifry on the long tail
Posted by mop Tue, 12 Apr 2005 01:10:00 GMT
David Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati, authored a three-part "State of the Blogosphere" article that makes for an interesting read. 1, 2, 3. (Technorati is a search engine++ for blogs.)
Some interesting tid-bits: the blogosphere, as measured by Technorati, is doubling in size every five months, a new weblog is created every two seconds or so, and six new weblog entries are tracked by Technorati each second. In part three of the article, Sifry also gives evidence for the importance of the Long Tail of the blogosphere.
Aside: from Wikipedia’s Long Tail entry:
A former Amazon employee described the Long Tail as follows: "We sold more books today that didn’t sell at all yesterday than we sold today of all the books that did sell yesterday."
