Starting a blog – the basics

I’ve had a number of people tell me that what I’ve told them about my early blogging experiences has encouraged them to consider also starting a blog, and for that reason, and now that I am past my first 100 days as a blogger, I thought that I would summarize how to start a blog, based on my own experiences.

Now that’s incredible – WordPress blog statistics for July 2009

You can read the statistics here.  I’ve copied a selection of them here (per another ‘Matt’ on wordpress.com) so that I can comment on them:

Here are July’s stats:

• 394,609 blogs were created.
• 5,666,839 posts were published.
• 418,946 new users joined.
• 6,594,795 file uploads.
• 3,762 gigabytes of new files.
• 839 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
• 7,890,707 comments.
• 6,681,646 logins.
• 1,253,217,900 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 1,289,187,116 on self-hosted blogs (2,542,405,016
  total across all WordPress blogs we track).
• 2,146,576 active blogs where “active” means they got a human visitor.
• 1,419,364,230 words.

Some amazing figures here.  Over 2 million ACTIVE blogs.  Wow. Over 2.5 billion pageviews in a month.  Astounding.