Wednesday, 11 April 2007

Weblogg-ed 04/06/2007. Sifry’s Alerts: The State of the Live Web, April 2007 Quote: 70 million weblogs About 120,000 new weblogs each day, or… 1.4 new blogs every second 3000-7000 new splogs (fake, or spam blogs) created every day Peak of 11,000 splogs per day last December 1.5 million posts per day, or… 17 posts per second Growing from 35 to 75 million blogs took 320 days 22 blogs among the top 100 blogs among the top 100 sources linked to in Q4 2006 - up from 12 in the prior quarter Japanese the #1 blogging language at 37% English second at 33% Chinese third at 8% Italian fourth at 3% Farsi a newcomer in the top 10 at 1% English the most even in postings around-the-clock Tracking 230 million posts with tags or categories 35% of all February 2007 posts used tags 2.5 million blogs posted at least one tagged post in February Note: The quarterly update of the blogosphere from Technorati. I still find it all pretty amazing.  - post by willrich Education Week: Let’s Abolish High School Quote: “A century ago, there was no way to address these concerns, but, thanks to computers and the Internet, we now have rapidly improving tools that will soon allow virtually all young people to master essential material at their own pace, and to do so at any point in their lives. There will probably always be a place for the classroom, but it will be a place where intense and intimate learning takes place with highly willing students, not a step on an assembly line.” Note: Pretty compelling essay by Robert Epstein that challenges, once again, the traditional beliefs about schooling and learning. It’s getting to the point where I’m either going to have to stop reading stuff like this or put my blog where my mouth is in terms of my own school system…  - post by willrich Listen to this podcast [Weblogg-ed] 10:41:02 PM

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