Going through my RSS feeds in my ThunderBird client for some of the old items, I found a very interesting article by Stuart Brown at Modern Life Rubbish. Also according to the statistical writeup he had linked to the Technorati page about 35 million blogs were tracked by Technorati and the numbers were doubling every 6 months. About few month later, from an independent statistics, Blog Herald stated that the blog count had gone up to 70 million.
Though, these are not exact figures and the number of blogs that are actively updated is much smaller, the original article by Stuart piqued my interest. He places different popular blogs on the visual spectrum from red to violet. He even includes some non-blog websites, or at least examples of them and places them on infra-red and ultra-violet regions.
The red region is mostly filled with blog that adds nothing must in terms of content, but does link to content that is present else where. The violet end on the other hand, generates content and is the crux of the creators we have present in the cyberspace. It is not indicative that the red region blogs are in anyway inferior, but it generally is desirable to add useful content. Many blogs are present in the green region that have a balance between links to other resources and also have created content.
Splat, as I see, is in the early toddler stages and can be found crawling around the yellow edge of the green region of the spectrum. As it grows, an effort will be made to have more original content and find a place among the elites like 'A List Apart' in the Violet region.
Where do you place your blog in the blogging spectrum?
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I think, I...
I think, I lie in the Blue region...
Yes, I do ...
Yes, I do see a lot of reviews and commentaries on happening over the internet and technical news over at Tech Buzz. Do you plan on shifting else where on the spectrum, Thilak?
I could, b...
I could, but I should pour in lots of efforts for that :D
Do we not ...
Do we not all strive for that and battle our inherent lazy selves? ;)
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