Are half of the blogs that Technorati tracks dead?

One more thing that struck me when reading David Sifry's first part of the 'State of the Blogosphere': "13.7 million bloggers are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created," David writes, and also: "Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs."

He concludes: "[E]ven though there's a reasonable amount of tire-kicking going on, blogging is growing as a habitual activity."

That's an optimistic interpretation. Do these figures mean, however, that about half of the 27.2 million blogs that Technorati tracks, or (27.2 - 13.7 =) 13.5 million, are dead?

Somewhat related on www.josschuurmans.com:

• Does Technorati see Blogosphere growth slowing down? (February 6, 2006)
• Rashmi Shinha's cognitive analysis of tagging (November 28, 2005)
• Technorati's CEO on blogosphere growth (November 24, 2005)

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