Acquisition Creates Blogging Powerhouse

January 8, 2005 by
Filed under: Blogging, Open Source, Venture Capital 

Six Apart which produces the Moveable Type publishing system and TypePad blogging service raised $10 million in venture funds in October. Today it announced the purchase of LiveJournal, a blogging service built on open source that claims 2.5 million users. Together they have 6.5 million blogs, according to TechNewsWorld.com. That seems way high, considering that Pew Research says about 8 million U.S. adults have a blog. (The vast majority of them only post once, however.)

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3 Comments on Acquisition Creates Blogging Powerhouse

  1. dan on Wed, 12th Jan 2005 10:01 pm

    2. I’ve read studies saying that new blogs are being created at a record pace, so even though the majority of them are abandonded after a single post, perhaps they’re counting all of them.

    I’d like to find out how many active blogs there are after a year of their inception.

  2. Steve Shu on Sat, 15th Jan 2005 5:01 am

    3. LiveJournal had like 5.3 million blogs (counting abandoned.

    I was keeping track here.
    http://sshu-s4.tripod.com/blog/index.blog?entry_id=543764

    Was hard for me to estimate Six Apart (pre-acq) at the time. Perhaps a good guesstimate is 6.5M-5.3M=1.2M for pre-acq.

    I am guessing Pew was counting active.

    All-in-all hard to count with or without GAAP rules for blog numbers.

  3. Consulting Clicks on Sun, 16th Jan 2005 11:01 am

    4. I find it easier to type on a blog than on my site.

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