BlogWord08 | State of the Blogosphere | Twitter Updates

Interested in what happened at BlogWorld? During the sessions, I sent out what amounted to a 15 page Word document, which added up to over 300 updates. This post covers the state of the blogosphere address & opening keynote with Chris Alden, Anil Dash and Richard Jalichandra who previewed Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere report. You’ll find all of my BlogWorld08 twoverage [tweet +coverage] here.

Thanks to those of you who asked me to share these updates, including Lynn Terry who writes the ClickNewz blog.

Reader’s Guide: Each line represents a live update made on @wiredprworks on twitter.com. Reporting is in reverse order; so start at the end and read your way up. Note that this is exactly what I typed during the session, misspellings and all. When you see @name, this means that the person who was talking may be found on twitter.com/name. Apologies in advance for any inaccuracies.

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BlogWorld08 Technorati and Typepad Keynote Twitter Transcription by Barbara Rozgonyi @wiredprworks

blogit – new tool to post to blogs #bwe08

leaving soon to meet up with Chicago bloggers-and anyone else who wants to stop by-will be in the concessions area, wearing turquoise #bwe08

ccarfi: @wiredprworks #bwe08 mobile guide here, too: http://ventana.cerado.com/blogworld too. Tweets, peeps and agenda.

we have the power to make the giants jump – and we’ve already done it, talking about open id #bwe08

@ruthdfw #bew08 = BlogWorld Expo 08 www.blogworldexpo.com, watch all tweets at: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=bwe08

branches of social media = blogging, social networking, social publishing – trend will continue #bwe08

ruthdfw: @wiredprworks what does #bwe08 mean?

blogging is about power to the people – #bwe08

blogging is becoming an industry, 2007 majority of internet users reading blogs #bwe08

huge part of the iceberg is under the water in internal communications blogs #bwe08

blogging ranges from personal to political, what matters is what the media is achieving #bwe08

anil dash talking about blogging history #bwe08

six apart’s name comes from founder’s birthdays – six days apart #bwe08

note to my followers tweets with #bwe08 coming from sessions/experiences at BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas www.blogworldexpo.com

@marismith – good to connect with you, too! your comment on being heard versus being memorable = great start to today! #bwe08

tough question to answer, the line between media and blogs is already gone #bwe08

where is the line between what is a media site and what is a blog @emom’s question #bwe08

marismith: @wiredprworks Yay, Barbara!!! Awesome to connect with you F2F at #BWE08. Whew, what an *amazing* event!!

technorati survey profiles top 10% of earners, mean income $19,000 year #bwe08

blogosphere is the new long tail, even w/a small audience, they’re incredibly loyal to the blogger and what they have to say #bwe08

average top blogger operated 3.5 blogs, get help if you need to #bwe08

on 9/22 technorati is publishing part 1/5 in a series, see the results at www.technorati.com #bwe08

about 1/2 have online or in person events – top 10% bloggers #bwe08

61% most influenced by other blogs, whole blogosphere can erupt on one topic #bwe08

90% blog about brands, 80% customer care, 60% 1/3 approached by brand to be an advocate, didn’t expect it to be that hight #bwe08

avg bogger spent $1000 on their business last year, top 10% earners use many tools and write 81 posts/mo #bwe08

bloggers everywhere in social media and in advertising, 1/4 use 3+ad mechanisms #bwe08

bloggers active web 2.0 consumers, avg. bloggers uses 5 web 2.0 utilities, #bwe08

diverse topics, other =43% that didn’t fit in 20 categories. expertise/experience top reasons to blog – #bwe08

technorati – #bwe08, 2/3 male, 50% 18-34, 52% outside of US, 72% publish in English, spread throughout US

76,000 blogs have technorati authority of 50+ #BWE08

95% of top 100 newspapers have blogs – technorati #bwe08

technorati – blogs=information and influence blogs are media, 77% of ppl on internet read blogs, #bwe08

sitting with @emom in front of @marismith in keynote #bwe08

in opening keynote about 1/2 full starts in about 5 minutes #BWE08