Dave's State of the Blogosphere

Dave Sifry has posted another State of the Blogosphere post based upon the stats that Technorati is tracking. Highlights this time around include:

They are now tracking over 50 million blogs
What they are tracking is now 100 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
It’s doubling in size every 200 days (a slow down – but considering the numbers not really)
175,000 blogs are created each day (the old 1 blog starting per second stat is out dated – it’s now 2 per second)
70% of pings that Technorati gets are from spam blogs
Daily posting levels are at about 1.6 million posts per day (18.6 per second)
English has retaken the lead as the most spoken language (Japanese is only 1% behind)