This document summarizes key points from a blogging/journalism panel discussion. It discusses the five C's of collaboration, content, converged services, community and conversation. It also provides statistics on the growth of blogs from 2005 to present day and the rise of spam blogs. Principles for communicating messages through accessible, easy to view and easy to use content are outlined. Social networks and their optimization are also mentioned.
9. Cardiff School of Journalism, The Quality and Independence of British Journalism; February 2008
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11. I talked to Technorati founder David Sifry to update the ‘05 blogging numbers. Back when we wrote the cover story, there were some 9 million blogs, with about 40 thousand new ones popping up each day. Now, says Sifry, Technorati indexes 112 million blogs, with 120 thousand new ones appearing each day. And that’s not including spam blogs. They were barely on the horizon in spring of ‘05, and now they account for—get this—well over 99% of all the pings and updates pouring into Technorati’s servers.
12. 11% of the 112 million blogs have posted in the last 60 days....or an estimated 13 million active blogs in the last 60 days according to Sifry.