42244 1 3 econsultancy_xml <p>At the time, Gartner based its prediction on the assumption that all those people who intend to experiment with a blog have already done so, and many have decided to move on to something else. </p> <p>Kolari's claims are based on even shakier foundations - a study by the University of Maryland in Baltimore, which looked at occurrences of the word "I" in blog postings. </p> <p>The point made by ebiquity is that the number of blog posts containing "I" has remained more or less constant over the past year, at around 400,000 per day. So this, it says, means that the English speaking blogosphere has reached its peak. </p> <p>This seems a bizarre method of measurement as it fails to take into account the number of blog posts that don't contain the term. For example, the last ten posts on this blog have been written without using the word. </p> <p>There is also plenty of room for growth in countries that have yet to reach full broadband penetration.</p> <p>In addition, as peaks in blogging have often accompanied big news events, <a href="http://www.sifry.com/alerts/Slide0005-12-tm.png">as Technorati's figures suggest,</a> who is to say that there won't be an explosion in blogging activity to accompany the US Presidential elections next year? </p> <p> <a href="mailto:blog@e-consultancy.com">blog@e-consultancy.com</a> </p> <FormattedContent xmlns="http://www.e-consultancy.com/schema/formattedContent/"> <Paragraph>At the time, Gartner based its prediction on the assumption that all those people who intend to experiment with a blog have already done so, and many have decided to move on to something else. </Paragraph> <Paragraph>Kolari's claims are based on even shakier foundations - a study by the University of Maryland in Baltimore, which looked at occurrences of the word "I" in blog postings. </Paragraph> <Paragraph>The point made by ebiquity is that the number of blog posts containing "I" has remained more or less constant over the past year, at around 400,000 per day. So this, it says, means that the English speaking blogosphere has reached its peak. </Paragraph> <Paragraph>This seems a bizarre method of measurement as it fails to take into account the number of blog posts that don't contain the term. For example, the last ten posts on this blog have been written without using the word. </Paragraph> <Paragraph>There is also plenty of room for growth in countries that have yet to reach full broadband penetration.</Paragraph> <Paragraph>In addition, as peaks in blogging have often accompanied big news events, <Link URL="http://www.sifry.com/alerts/Slide0005-12-tm.png" Window="New">as Technorati's figures suggest,</Link> who is to say that there won't be an explosion in blogging activity to accompany the US Presidential elections next year? </Paragraph> <Paragraph> <Link URL="mailto:blog@e-consultancy.com" Window="New">blog@e-consultancy.com</Link> </Paragraph> </FormattedContent> 2007-02-26T13:30:00+00:00 1 1 econsultancy_xml <p> <strong>A post by Pranam Kolari on <a href="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2007/02/25/the-is-of-the-blogosphere/">ebiquity's blog</a> claims that the English-speaking blogosphere has reached its peak.</strong> </p> <p>This echoes <a href="/blog/649-gartner-predicts-that-blogging-will-peak-next-year">predictions made by Gartner in December</a> that the blogosphere will top out this year at 100m blogs, and start to decline thereafter. </p> <FormattedContent xmlns="http://www.e-consultancy.com/schema/formattedContent/"> <Paragraph> <Emphasis>A post by Pranam Kolari on <Link URL="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2007/02/25/the-is-of-the-blogosphere/" Window="New">ebiquity's blog</Link> claims that the English-speaking blogosphere has reached its peak.</Emphasis> </Paragraph> <Paragraph>This echoes <Link URL="/blog/649-gartner-predicts-that-blogging-will-peak-next-year" Window="New">predictions made by Gartner in December</Link> that the blogosphere will top out this year at 100m blogs, and start to decline thereafter. </Paragraph> </FormattedContent> false 871 <p>For background on online PR and social media more generally, It's worth reading our (free to registered users) <strong><a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/online-pr-and-social-media-trends-briefing">Social Media Trends Briefing</a></strong> (June 2009). Econsultancy has also published <strong><a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/social-media-and-online-pr-digital-marketing-template-files">Social Media and Online PR Template Files</a></strong>, which you can adapt and use for your own projects. For innovation in this space, download our <strong><a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/innovation-report">Innovation Report</a></strong>.</p> <p>For background on online PR and social media more generally, It's worth reading our (free to registered users) <strong><a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/online-pr-and-social-media-trends-briefing">Social Media Trends Briefing</a></strong> (June 2009). Econsultancy has also published <strong><a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/social-media-and-online-pr-digital-marketing-template-files">Social Media and Online PR Template Files</a></strong>, which you can adapt and use for your own projects. For innovation in this space, download our <strong><a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/innovation-report">Innovation Report</a></strong>.</p> 362755 Another report claims that blogging has peaked false 2007-02-28T09:32:00+00:00 another-report-claims-that-blogging-has-peaked 2009-04-28T22:43:53+01:00 2009-10-13T08:54:01+01:00 418