Tag: TECHNORATI

Blogs are a dime a dozen (or, perhaps, a dozen a thousand). But don't think that just because there are over 133 million blogs out there, according to blog tracker Technorati, all of them are actually active. In fact, according to a 2008 survey by the company, of the estimated 133 million, only about 7.4 million had been updated in the four months preceding the survey. The New York Times sought ...

Keeping up with the latest Web and tech trends can be particularly difficult, especially for casual surfers who get easily confused and frustrated by the constant inundation of new terms and devices. To help lower the language barrier, according to the BBC, the master statisticians at Gadget Helpline surveyed 5,000 U.K. residents, and compiled England's 10 most confusing tech-related terms. We ...

Happy belated birthday, blogosphere! In case you didn't know, December 17 was the 10th anniversary of the term 'Weblog,' which was shortened to 'blog' at some point. The term started with a man, Jorn Barger, who used the phrase to describe his Web page where he posted links of interesting things he found around the Internet. Back in 1997, blogging was hardly the phenomenon it is today. Some of ...