Informant38

A friend of mine asked: how many webloggers are there? This is like "How big is the Internet?"

I searched through Nua and a dozen other internet sites and haven't seen any research on the size of the blogosphere.

I ask you:

1. Do you have an educated guess?
2. Do you know of any prior work in this area?
3. Can you think of a methodology or two to create useful measures of the number of bloggers and the number of weblogs?
4. What related questions would you want answered?
5. How might you use this information?
6. Pitfalls to avoid?
7. Would you join a BlogCensus.org to provide and share stats?

{the geographical name of the place in Magister Ludi where the monk/scholars catalogued the jots and tittles of arcane scholarship preceding, the weight of ink in the periods and commas of ancient documents, I think it was called 'Castalia'? it's been 30 years and more....
well I think it's grand all that. but it's a little like itemizing the morphology of the brain. as opposed to the work it does/is doing. counting Einstein's brain cells? as opposed to 'what is/was he thinking?' a lot of people at the vanguard of all this have a proprietary air that comes from a sense of already knowing what this is, mostly because many of them were/are involved with the technology at the get. academic narcissism, with a tech overlay. my point would be that there is much here, here being what's being described as blogosphere blogistan and other even clunkier neologisms, that there is much here that is parallel to the dream state of an individual brain, immeasurable, unquantifiable, with an unpredictable outcome, that self-consciousness and rational manipulation can only diminish.}