{"id":122,"date":"2006-04-18T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T04:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2006\/04\/blog-growth-continues-but-it-cant-last.html"},"modified":"2006-04-18T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T04:28:00","slug":"blog-growth-continues-but-it-cant-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/blog-growth-continues-but-it-cant-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog growth continues but it can&#039;t last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/technorati.com\/weblog\/2006\/04\/96.html\">The blogosphere is over 60 times bigger than it was only 3 years ago.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not hyperbole, it&#8217;s Technorati&#8217;s quarterly blog report. The blogosphere continues to double every six months. Technorati says the number of blogs it monitors has increased more than 16-fold in two years, from 2 million to 34.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>These are impressive numbers, but they aren&#8217;t going to continue to go up forever. At some point, in fact, the blogosphere will decline as existing bloggers let their diaries go fallow. That&#8217;s when things really get interesting. Growth is exciting, but periods of consolidation are when people and organizations really make sense of something new. Any guesses on when that&#8217;s going to happen? My bet is within the next two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blogosphere is over 60 times bigger than it was only 3 years ago. That&#8217;s not hyperbole, it&#8217;s Technorati&#8217;s quarterly blog report. The blogosphere continues to double every six months. Technorati says the number of blogs it monitors has increased &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/blog-growth-continues-but-it-cant-last\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-1Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}