{"id":1738,"date":"2003-11-17T20:58:15","date_gmt":"2003-11-18T00:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/11\/17\/blogosphere-explosion-continues\/"},"modified":"2003-11-17T20:58:15","modified_gmt":"2003-11-18T00:58:15","slug":"blogosphere-explosion-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/11\/17\/blogosphere-explosion-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogosphere Explosion Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1826'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"546\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"540\" height=\"211\">\n<p>I thought Technorati was acting a bit pokey.<br \/>\n       &nbsp; It says Dowbrigade hasn&#8217;t been updated in 5 days 16 hours and 45<br \/>\n       minutes. I was beginning to wonder if my memories of the past five days<br \/>\n       were some sort of elaborate halucination or fever dream. Fortunately,<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sifry.com\/\">Dave Sifry <\/a>explains, and continues with some fascinating statistics on<br \/>\n       the growth of the Sphere:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n          These past weeks have been a pretty busy one for me and the growing <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\">Technorati<\/a>          team. Before I get too far in this post, I&#8217;ve got a mea culpa &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\">Technorati<\/a>          hasn&#8217;t been very responsive lately. Fact is, we&#8217;ve been getting a lot<br \/>\n            of attention and new searches, and the blogosphere seems to be growing<br \/>\n            at a pretty steep rate as well. This double whammy has caused our current<br \/>\n            infrastructure to buckle, and has caused some service outages.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, we&#8217;re adding 8,000-9,000 new weblogs every<br \/>\n             day, not counting the<br \/>\n              1.2<br \/>\n              Million<br \/>\n              weblogs<br \/>\n              we already<br \/>\n              are<br \/>\n              tracking.<br \/>\n              That means that on average, a brand new weblog is created every 11<br \/>\n            seconds. We&#8217;re also seeing about 100,000 weblogs update every day as<br \/>\n            well, which<br \/>\n              means that on average, a weblog is updated every 0.86 seconds.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sifry.com\/alerts\/archives\/000313.html#000313\">from<br \/>\n      Tecnorati<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought Technorati was acting a bit pokey. &nbsp; It says Dowbrigade hasn&#8217;t been updated in 5 days 16 hours and 45 minutes. I was beginning to wonder if my memories of the past five days were some sort of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/11\/17\/blogosphere-explosion-continues\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}