Technorati Adding 12,000 New Blogs A Day

JD's New Media Musings has some notes from Technorati's recent Developer's Salon in which it was claimed that Technorati is adding 11,000-12,000 new blogs a day to the list of blogs it monitors. Disclaimers are made about the fact that some bloggers maintain more than one blog and some people don't maintain their blog at all (45% of the blogs on their list have not been updated within the last three months). It's not clear to me what proportion of this large number represents existing blogs that are newly discovered by Technorati vs. how many are new blogs. In any case, the current list of blogs monitored by Technorati is 2.4 million, which I suspect is only a fraction of the blogosphere (LiveJournal reached the 2 million mark back in January, which was over 1 million blogs-a-day ago based on the 12,000 blogs/day estimate). Of course, now that Bill Gates is promoting blogs, there may be even more people inclined to at least try blogging ... I wonder if Mr. Gates will join the blogosphere himself.