Here is a stat report from WordPress:
Here’s what you rascals did last month, with a few new and improved stats:

  • 240,494 blogs were created.
  • 281,729 new users joined.
  • 2,533,704 file uploads. (Y’all use the new uploader a lot more.)
  • About 740 gigabytes of new files. (Estimated, better number next month.)
  • 317 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters. (Compare to last time we published transfer numbers.)
  • 3,258,032 posts and 1,330,355 new pages.
  • 5,775,721 comments.
  • 4,903,485 logins.
  • 655,178,604 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 408,359,440 on self-hosted blogs. (1,063,538,044 pageviews total across blogs using our stats system. We broke a billion!!)
  • 63,730,680 pageviews in RSS feeds.
  • 884,208 active blogs, where “active” means they got a human visitor.
  • 152,005,525 unique people visited WordPress.com-hosted blogs.

  • Random facts:
  • About 30% of pageviews go to blogs with their own domains.
  • 43% of pageviews to permalink pages.
  • 30% of pageviews go to blogs in languages other than English. The most popular? Spanish, Portuguese, and Indonesian.
  • 63% of our visitors were from outside of the United States.
  • About 93% of pageviews were to people not logged in.
  • People logged in somewhere using OpenID 84 thousand times.
  • Blogs using the Digg3 theme got 5.26% of total traffic.
  • There were 475 posts made via the Atom API (234,831 with XML-RPC).
  • We sent 3,761,059 emails.

Your church people, your band following, your friends, relatives, and enemies all read blogs. Blogs are bigger than the newspaper ever could be. The reach, the influence. If you are reading this, you probably already know…but you may not be blogging. Get on board.

I was reading last night about the slowest group of adaptors to the 2.0 experience are church people. We have to speak the language of our culture. Twitter, blog, podcast, myspace, facebook, etc are the tools to speak into your congregation! get on the bus before the bus rolls out. (I say that with passion and hope, not condemnation)