There are currently 27 million blogs online
• A new blog is created every second
• The total number of blogs doubles about every five months
• 13 per cent of all blogs are updated at least on a weekly basis
• A February poll by Gallup found that one in five web users in the US - or 40 million Americans - read blogs
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