I just finished reading the November Wrap-up at WordPress.Com. If you don't think blogging is popular, then have a look at these stats:
- 198 thousand blogs were created.
- 207 thousand new users joined.
- 1.34 million file uploads.
- 2.5 million posts and 996 thousand new pages.
- 3.6 million comments.
- 20 million spam comments blocked.
- 2.9 million logins.
- 416 million pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 169 million on self-hosted blogs. (585 million pageviews total.)
- 554,812 active blogs in November, where “active” means they got a human pageview.
Since I am only one out of the 198,000 new blogs, I feel pretty lucky I've even been noticed. :)
Source:
November Wrap-up « WordPress.com