Matt, the founder of WordPress, the best semantic publishing platform on the planet, just released some insane statistics for WordPress.com for the month of January. Take a look:
- 372,519 blogs were created.
- 393,836 new users joined.
- 4,592,097 file uploads.
- 2,710 gigabytes of new files.
- 553 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
- 8,771,891 comments.
- 6,528,657 logins.
- 1,073,421,738 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 945,105,050 on self-hosted blogs (2,018,526,788 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
- 1,373,108 active blogs and 18,768,022 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor.
- 1,295,531,829 words.
I could probably spend some time explaining these numbers and their significance, but I’ll just let you soak it all in.
In addition, in the latest Practical Web Design Magazine, WordPress (and Matt) was name the Open Source application platform for 2008.
There is, without question, a clear winner in the blogging platform space. Make the jump, everyone’s doing it, so why not you?
The benefits of switching could be “eternal.” =)
Gulp, I am competing for readers with 372,519 other new blogs from January alone?
that's true. forget about it then. no biggie!
it's a thought, but then I have to get myself hosted? – not cheap and easy over at this side of the world.
that wordpress tv is just the coolest thing I was watching it last night and between that and codex there's plenty of resources and ways to keep edumacating oneself.
seriously. it's awesome.
Seriously, John. How much are you getting paid now?
… SERIOUSLY. once a week a look at their job board: http://automattic.com/jobs/
and i dream….