{"id":1153,"date":"2005-03-15T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2005-03-15T00:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2005-03-15T00:01:23","modified_gmt":"2005-03-15T00:01:23","slug":"state_of_the_bl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"State of the Blogosphere, 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sifry.com\/alerts\/archives\/000298.html\">Dave Sifry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/\">Technorati<\/a> is now tracking over 7.8 million weblogs, and 937 million links. That&#8217;s just about double the number of weblogs tracked in October 2004. In fact, the blogosphere is doubling in size about once every 5 months. It has already done so at this pace four times, which means that in the last 20 months, the blogosphere has increased in size by over 16 times.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/03\/14\/business\/media\/14paper.html?ex=1268456400&#038;en=dc1e8eeb3627194e&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">Katherine Seelye<\/a>: Can Papers end the Free Ride Online?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Sifry: Technorati is now tracking over 7.8 million weblogs, and 937 million links. That&#8217;s just about double the number of weblogs tracked in October 2004. In fact, the blogosphere is doubling in size about once every 5 months. It has already done so at this pace four times, which means that in the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}