Part I of the State of the Blogosphere covers the overall growth of the blogosphere in terms of new blogs created.

Technorati was tracking over 14.2 Million weblogs, and over 1.3 billion links in July 2005

The blogosphere continues to double about every 5.5 months

A new blog is created about every second, there are over 80,000 created daily

About 55% of all blogs are active, and that has remained a consistent statistic for at least a year

About 13% of all blogs are updated at least weekly

» State of the Blogosphere, August 2005, Part 1: Blog Growth