We're seeing more and more momentum. Likewise, Userland Software has signed up 2,700 users for Manila, a browser-based publishing tool, in the first two months of its release. New users are signing up at a rate of 50 a day. We'll make it up in volume. It's not just the ranks of weblog publishers that are growing.
Readership also appears to be up.
While declining to provide precise numbers, Jorn Barger, who publishes Robot Wisdom , one of the oldest and most popular weblogs, and who coined the term weblog, said his daily traffic has grown to tens of thousands from the mere hundreds when he started in 1998. In fact, Barger claims he creates his own mini-Slashdot effect these days, boosting the traffic to sites and pages he lists on his page. I didn't think I had that kind of clout. Most weblogs are maintained by individuals, and the sites reflect their creators' interests. Though they generally follow the same format, with fresh links at the top of the page, weblogs come in many varieties.