Is blogging important? 157 million hits says it is!
Whew, they just sent around the latest stats from our employee blogs at http://blogs.technet.com and http://blogs.msdn.com and those two sites combined had about 157 million hits. Now, keep in mind that doesn't mean visitors, but, still, if you told me three years ago that our blog sites would be getting hit that hard within three years I would have looked at you like you were doing crack.
By the way, we should thank the folks over at Telligent who make the excellent Community Server, which runs those blogs.
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May 6th, 2006 at 6:16 am
And still you use WP :D
May 6th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
Keyvan: If he’s found something that works, why would he need to move?
And frankly, I think Scoble moving to MSDN or some MS community site would make him seem less independent and more corporate lackey type–I would no longer be reading “Scobles blog” but rather that “MS employee blog” or “that MSDN developer blog”, etc.
May 6th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
Aren’t you confusing popular with important?
American Idol gets tremendous viewing figures, I’m not concerned that one day it won’t exist.
I thought you stepped away to get a better feel for ‘real life’; seems to have worn off quickly :)
May 6th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
Most of those are probably comment spammers!
May 6th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
Amazing stats, Robert—if that doesn’t illustrate Web 2·0’s power, I don’t know what does.
May 7th, 2006 at 12:28 am
Are those “hits” or “pageviews” - There is a very big difference.
May 7th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
Looks like its just big numbers that support my “popular=relevant” suggestion.
May 7th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
Microsoft Blogs Reach 157 Million Hits
Scoble points out that Microsoft has had 157 millon hits to their employee blogs either at http://blogs.technet.com or http://blogs.msdn.com. Wow. Hat tip: kevin.lexblog.com …
May 8th, 2006 at 10:43 am
[...] Finally the April MS Bloggers stats are out.. we are getting 157 million actual page views [MSDN +TechNet] !!! wow.. it seems that blog is *actually* the new web wave. and surely for us, its a great way to communicate with our customers. and guess who is the first one to blog about the stats ..yes you are right scoble again :) [...]
May 11th, 2006 at 2:25 am
[...] Is blogging important? 157 million hits says it is! [...]
May 11th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
[...] Alla fine devo dire che CommunityServer è una piattaforma veramente completa, con il support a blog, forum, gallerie fotografiche e tutte le funzioni di amministrazione che ci aspetterebbe da un sistema del genere. Inoltre risulta anche oltremodo scalabile se pensate che usata su Blogs.msdn.com ha retto 157 milioni di hits nel solo mese appena trascorso (i dati li ha resi pubblci in maniera un po’ carbonara Robert Scooble sul suo blog ). [...]
May 15th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
SAP thinks so too….Check out this post!
http://www.cio-weblog.com/50226711/cioweblog_goes_to_sapphire06_orlando.php
Brief: SAP’s Initiative with a Bloggers Corner at the SAPPHIRE ‘ 06 Conference.
May 15th, 2006 at 4:18 pm
SAP thinks so too….Check out this post!
http://www.cio-weblog.com/50226711/cioweblog_goes_to_sapphire06_orlando.php at the CIO-Weblog
Brief: SAP’s Initiative with a Bloggers Corner at the SAPPHIRE ‘ 06 Conference.