Sifry is writing about Corporate Blogger today – he numbers them as 5000:
‘These are people who blog in an official or semi-official capacity at a company, or are so affiliated with the company where they work that even though they are not officially spokespeople for the company, they are clearly affiliated. For example, the folks in SAP’s developers program get blogs if they want them, and are available to anyone who joins the (free) SAP developers network. This group also includes folks at Sun Microsystems and at Microsoft, where employees are actively encouraged to blog.’
Read more at Sifry’s Alerts: Corporate Bloggers
The other posts in this series of posts are also worth reading – at State/Size of the Blogosphere – Growth of the Blogosphere – Big Media vs Blogs.