Comments on: InstaPundit vs. Wonkette

By: carpeicthus

carpeicthus — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:45:54 +0000

I think the number is inflated when you relate it to people. I've started 7 or 8 blog accounts, but there's only one of me.

By: weev

weev — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 00:04:09 +0000

Glenn Reynolds occaisionally spews some unintentional humor.

A base in comedy does not exclude one from being a policy analyst. Some of the better policy analysis to happen during the Bush administration has come in the form of comedy.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 23:56:14 +0000

I was at a friend's home and his daughter said she had her own blog.

I went to it and she had exactly 3 posts in 3 months all about Star Wars. I guess there's blogs and then there's blogs.

By: Tiger

Tiger — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 23:55:55 +0000

I actually believe 2 million to be a conservative number, although I suspect about 2000 or so are actually worth reading. Some who have read mine believe that number to be closer to 1999.

By: 42nd SSD

42nd SSD — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 23:26:51 +0000

"2 million" also depends on how you define blog, of course.

It sounds fairly credible though. Let's look at just one site, livejournal.com--over 2 million blogs listed as belonging to people in the US... most of whom are probably under 18 years old :-) Who knows how many of them are updated on a regular basis, and some people have more than one blog. But, overall, 2 million would seem to be a reasonably conservative estimate.