Is blogging important? 157 million hits says it is!

May 5, 2006 By

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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  • http://nayyeri.net/ Keyvan Nayyeri

    And still you use WP :D

  • http://nayyeri.net Keyvan Nayyeri

    And still you use WP :D

  • Jon

    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.

  • Jon

    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.

  • Doug

    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 :)

  • Doug

    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 :)

  • http://www.davidarussell.co.uk/ David Russell

    Most of those are probably comment spammers!

  • http://www.davidarussell.co.uk/ David Russell

    Most of those are probably comment spammers!

  • http://jackyan.com Jack Yan

    Amazing stats, Robert—if that doesn’t illustrate Web 2·0’s power, I don’t know what does.

  • http://www.jackyan.com/blog Jack Yan

    Amazing stats, Robert—if that doesn’t illustrate Web 2·0’s power, I don’t know what does.

  • http://www.techmount.com/ amorson

    Are those “hits” or “pageviews” – There is a very big difference.

  • http://www.techmount.com amorson

    Are those “hits” or “pageviews” – There is a very big difference.

  • Doug

    Looks like its just big numbers that support my “popular=relevant” suggestion.

  • Doug

    Looks like its just big numbers that support my “popular=relevant” suggestion.

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  • http://www.cio-weblog.com/ Prashanth Rai

    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.

  • http://www.cio-weblog.com Prashanth Rai

    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.

  • http://www.cio-weblog.com/ Prashanth Rai

    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.

  • http://www.cio-weblog.com Prashanth Rai

    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.