Written by From SFGate:
In just the past 24 hours, more than 81,000 blogs were born.
The new additions bring the total to nearly 150 million blogs on the Web – and counting, according to the Nielsen Co.’s BlogPulse. But just how many of them will still be around next year? Or for that matter, in a couple of months?
That’s the predicament that faced Tumblr founder David Karp when he tried to start a blog four years ago. Like others, he wanted to carve out a place online to share what was going on in his life. But after three months, he quit. He also discovered something about himself.
“I’m not a writer,” he said. “It was a huge burden to keep this thing up.”
Enter Tumblr, one of a new generation of blogging tools quickly gaining momentum on the Internet. They make it easy to post just about anything online: a photograph here, a video clip there, a link to an interesting news article and, of course, words.
