Le VLOG de Rebie: The Silicon Show

21 year old Kate Tanner, a shop worker at Blue Banana (a clothing store) in Cardiff, Wales was recently fired from her job by SMS. The text said her services would no longer be required, adding: "Thank you for your time with us." Boss Ian Bisbie defended his decision to fire the young employee by saying, "youth business and our staff are all part of the youth culture that uses SMS messaging."

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- Technorati is now tracking more than 50 Million weblogs

- The blogosphere is over 100 times bigger than it was just 3 years ago.

- Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size every 200 days, or about once every 6 and a half months.

- From January 2004 until July 2006, almost two and a half years later, the number of blogs that Technorati tracks has continued to double every 5-7 months.

- As of July 2006, about 175,000 new weblogs were created each day, which means that on average, there are more than 2 blogs created each second of each day.

- The total posting volume of the blogosphere continues to rise, showing about 1.6 Million postings per day, or about 18.6 posts per second. This is about double the volume of about a year ago

- As you continue down the long tail of media sites, the number of blogs starts to grow - to 11 of the top 90 sites, or 12.2% of the total, especially given the budget differentials

- The most prevalent times for English-language posting is between the hours of 10AM and 2PM Pacific time, with an additional spike at around 5PM Pacific time.