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Some have put the total number of weblogs at more than 500,000.

December 08, 2004

Wired News: Blah, Blah, Blah and Blog

In January alone, at least 41,000 people created new blogs using Blogger, and that number is always increasing, Williams said. Some have put the total number of weblogs at more than 500,000.

Alongside the boom, however, there have recently been a few faint signs of backlash. As increasing hordes take on the task of trying to keep new sites looking nice, sounding original and free from banalities, more hordes just seem to fail.

In a column that was almost universally panned in weblog circles, John Dvorak of PC Magazine said that while a few blogs were insightful, many new webloggers were getting into blogging for all the wrong reasons. They were "wannabe writers" who were looking for "ego gratification," Dvorak wrote. ...

so what if most weblogs aren't interesting? The good thing, said Williams, is that everybody doesn't have to read them all. Asked if he'd like to live in a world where virtually everyone blogs, Williams chuckled and said, "Yeah, I think it would be a great thing. It's not that you want to read them. But people have the desire to express themselves, and I think it's tremendously powerful activity. If you write every day, your writing improves, your thinking improves."