For a comprehensive look at “what is a blog?”

I’m sitting in the airport, conducting some research for my informational interviews, and wanted to see how many blogs are created each and every day.  I came across this detailed report from Technorati that outlines the state of the blogosphere.  The 2008 report provides an in-depth perspective on what blogs are, how many are out there, who posts what and what makes blogs more successful than others.

Technorati defines the bloggosphere as,

“the ecosystem of interconnected communities of bloggers and readers at the convergence of journalism and conversation.”

I found this to be a fairly credible, academic interpretation – even though they cite non-academic sources like Wikipedia to help them in their description.  I also enjoyed their comprehensive standpoint on “going beyond the numbers” helping average people like myself understand what and how blogs work.  Please enjoy!

Click here to read the report.