[StarLab]

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

[robert]

That's shocking, just in America I imagine more than 1/2 of people have blogs.

[StarLab]

Yes, the traffic out there is incredible.

Unless you find a true niche, promotion can be quite difficult. Especially in the areas of Tech and Search Engine Optimization/Web design.

[mattt]

of course blogging is the most popular and hot thing in the web 2.0 era. I feel that almost anyone will jump into starting blogging but only a few will continue with it. Only those update regularly will make this way of sharing your knowledge more interesting and more popular. Blogging is actually evolving!

[Jerlene]

Blogging is super popular. It was like what forums were for a while.
I think both are dying down though. Nothing special anymore.