Blogosphere slowing?
VentureBeat will attend the Web 2.0 conference today in San Francisco, which celebrates new Internet companies.
But it comes at a time when a key component of Internet excitement — blog activity — is losing steam. David Sifry of Technorati, writes about the state of the blogoshpere, and the chart below shows blog posting volume overall is down from the previous quarter.
Note that the overall number of blogs in existence has gone up. However, you’d expect that. People and companies are creating them, some out of near obligation. They don’t necessarily scrap them — even if they’re not updating them much.
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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.
