"According to blog search-engine and measurement firm Technorati, 23,000 new weblogs are created every day—or about one every three seconds. "

From 10 TECH TRENDS Why There's No Escaping the Blog
Freewheeling bloggers can boost your product—or destroy it. Either way, they've become a force business can't afford to ignore. By David Kirkpatrick and Daniel Roth, From the Jan. 10, 2005 Issue
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