{"id":1592,"date":"2010-10-08T18:32:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T18:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2010-10-08T18:32:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T18:32:52","slug":"the-blogosphere-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/the-blogosphere-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blogosphere in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogherald.com\/2010\/09\/20\/state-of-the-blogosphere-in-2010\/\">State of the Blogosphere in 2010<\/a> report over at BlogHerald. It&#8217;s chock full of lots of data about blogs and the bloggers who blog them, taken from the BlogPulse survey that includes over 150,000,000 blogs.<\/p>\n<p>In the infographic below, you&#8217;ll discover the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Top 10 blogs by traffic<\/li>\n<li> The spread of pro, part-time, hobbyist and self-employed bloggers<\/li>\n<li> Breakdown of their age and demographic data<\/li>\n<li> How often they post<\/li>\n<li> What languages are most prominent (hint: English is now ranked #2 as the most prominent language of blogs. See if you can guess what #1 is.)<\/li>\n<li> Revenue earned by bloggers<\/li>\n<li> Geographic distribution of blogs within the U.S.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Blogosphere\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Wgi7DTsDt2g\/TK82M8jaAxI\/AAAAAAAACB8\/lc1qbLR902E\/s1600\/state_of_the_blogosphere_w600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"1888\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Typically, this is a function that was handled by Technorati. It would seem that their report <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/state-of-the-blogosphere\/\">is still a few weeks away<\/a>. You can check out the archived posts for the State of the Blogsophere in <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/blogging\/feature\/state-of-the-blogosphere-2009\/\">2009<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/blogging\/feature\/state-of-the-blogosphere-2008\/\">2008<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sifry.com\/alerts\/archives\/000493.html\">2007<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/state-of-the-blogosphere\/\">earlier<\/a>. But it leads to the question: whatever happened to the prominence of Technorati? It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.holtz.com\/index.php\/weblog\/what_the_hell_is_up_with_technorati\/\">a question that&#8217;s been asked before<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, enjoy the eye candy. Other great infographics are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogherald.com\/tag\/infographic\/\">available from BlogHerald here<\/a>. If you have any observations or insights, I&#8217;d be glad to hear about them below.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Monty<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/infographicslab.com\/\">InfoGraphicsLab.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found the State of the Blogosphere in 2010 report over at BlogHerald. It&#8217;s chock full of lots of data about blogs and the bloggers who blog them, taken from the BlogPulse survey that includes over 150,000,000 blogs. In the infographic below, you&#8217;ll discover the following: Top 10 blogs by traffic The spread of &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/the-blogosphere-in-2010\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,294],"tags":[526,766,767,768],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-scottmonty","tag-blogging","tag-blogs","tag-news","tag-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}