New Stats From Technorati

Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere — now called The State of the Live Web – came out today. Here are some highlights:

70 million weblogs
About 120,000 new weblogs each day, or…
1.4 new blogs every second
1.5 million posts per day, or…
17 posts per second
Growing from 35 to 75 million blogs took 320 days
22 blogs among the top 100 blogs among the top 100 sources linked to in Q4 2006 - up from 12 in the prior quarter
Japanese the #1 blogging language at 37%
English second at 33%
Chinese third at 8%
Italian fourth at 3%
Farsi a newcomer in the top 10 at 1%