Barbarians at Blogosphere’s gate

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The social networking barbarians are pounding at the gates of blogosphere again! Social networks are presently the online uber-magnets and are currently pulling in the crowds.

I wrote the blog below on 9th August 2006. Seems appropriate to reprise it, as here we are a year later pondering this very question again. Except this time the very real barbarians at the gate are Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, ConnectU and other social networks whose threat to the very fabric of blogosphere would appear to some to be real.

Here is what I wrote on 9th August 2006:

Will blogosphere continue to expand and expand or will it reach a peak and contract or will it simply implode on itself without warning?

David Sifry is the keeper of the answer.

Here are a couple of the graphs David uses to exemplify pictorially what is happening to our Blogosphere. Note the Daily Posting Volume (or by ‘event’) graph to see how an incident in some faraway place can boost traffic.

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HERE is David’s latest report on the State of the Blogosphere.

Back in April this year, Dave Sifry published his quarterly “State of The Blogosphere” or the Live Web report which you can read in detail The State of the Live Web, April 2007

This was the picture 4 months ago - a lifetime in Live Web. Dave’s very interesting reading and I am willing to bet the numbers in the next Stae of the Blogosphere report due shortlywill not be dramatically changed from April 2007. To read and review all Dave’s reports since October 2004, click here on State of the Live Web.

Social networks are currently the online uber-magnet and are pulling in the crowds. For example, when I registered at Facebook at the beginning of July 2007, there were 823 Namibians in the Namibian Group. Now, less than a month later, there are 1,328 or a staggering 505 more Namibians have joined the group as of today’s date. This represents a monumental 61% increase in less than a month.

Where do all these Namibians come from and why aren’t they blogging at their own sites? Or are they?

Imagine how much more stronger the Namibian representation would be at: Afrigator, Muti, Amatomu if they operated genuine blogs. How many do? If you are part of the Namibian group at Facebook, drop me a line. My contact form is here.

Imagine how much more information about Namibia would be out there to educate bloggers from around the world. Imagine how much stronger the telcoms industry in Namibia would become if there was more need for bandwidth. Imagine how many more jobs would be created.

Barbarians at Blogosphere’s gate