Technorati: 2.4 million blogs and counting Blog-tracker Technorati began on Thanksgiving 2002 and now monitors some 2.4 million. It ain't as tough as it sounds, apparently, as nearly 45 percent haven't been updated in three months. So that's a mere more than 1.2 million. (Or something like that. You can do the math yourself if you want more precise figures.) Anyway, I figure that if nearly half the people who create blogs can leave them untouched for 3 months at a time, it's okay for me to step away from this beast for three or four days at a time.
I like Technorati. It makes for good ego-surfing on a scale more limited than Google. One of the features I like best about Technorati is its booktalk, which tracks the books bloggers are discussing at the moment. For news junkies, the site also tracks discussions about breaking news and current events. Now, if Technorati would only add a feature for music discussions, I would be close to ecstatic.