Blogs, blogs and more blogs

I have been trying to avoid this for sometime now.  Other people can do a much better job at writing about this than me. 

I'm talking about the rise of the blog.  I can't avoid it anymore, because according to David Sifry at Technorati (the Google equivalent for blogs):

• Technorati now tracks over 35.3 Million blogs
• The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months
• It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
• On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day
• 19.4 million bloggers (55%) are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created
• Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour

Blogs are starting to have a real impact.  Large companies are monitoring blogs for PR purposes (I was contacted this week by the PR department of a large UK company.) Small companies are getting their message to the masses.   And the individual is having fun (at 67 my mother is writing her memoirs on a blog - the family contribute, add comments, pictures etc..)  It's the early stages of a technology revolution.