Tips on finding blogs

Building incoming links from Blogs advice and mention of the "one way links" that blogs provide...

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"Build Incoming Links From Blogs
I will show you how to build incoming links from blogs within a matter of minutes. It is a simple process to increase your link popularity.
The biggest bonus with blogs is it creates one way links, no need to link back, and finding blogs related to your website theme is a big plus.
How to Find Blogs
There are many ways to to build incoming links from blogs, but finding them can be a pain.
Problem solved with Google Alerts , if you do not have an account then create one, it’s free. Then all you do is type in a keyword, select blogs, type your email address in and choose daily, weekly or monthly updates.
Then every single day, week, month your inbox with receive a list of blogs that have been posted live on the internet that match the keyword you entered."
- Build Incoming Links From Blogs (view on Google Sidewiki)

Statistics on Web 2.0 and its usage rates

Focusing on Blogs, Facebook and Digg the above statistics add much weight to this discussion on a paper on Blogs that was written 7 years ago.

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"Blogosphere stats
133,000,000 – number of blogs indexed by Technorati since 2002
346,000,000 – number of people globally who read blogs (comScore March 2008)
900,000 – average number of blog posts in a 24 hour period
1,750,000 – number of RSS subscribers to TechCrunch, the most popular Technology blog (January 2009)
77% - percentage of active Internet users who read blogs
55% – percentage of the blogosphere that drinks more than 2 cups of coffee per day (source)
81 - number of languages represented in the blogosphere
59% – percentage of bloggers who have been blogging for at least 2 years
source

Twitter stats
1,111,991,000 – number of Tweets to date (see an up to the minute count here)
3,000,000 – number of Tweets/day(March 2008) (from TechCrunch)
165,414 - number of followers of the most popular Twitter user (@BarackObama) – but he’s not active
86,078 – number of followers of the most active Twitter user (@kevinrose)
63% – percentage of Twitter users that are male (from Time)
Facebook stats
200,000,000 – number of active users
100,000,000 - number of users who log on to Facebook at least once each day
170 - number of countries/territories that use Facebook
35 - number of different languages used on Facebook
2,600,000,000 – number of minutes global users in aggregate spend on Facebook daily
100 – number of friends the average user has
700,000,000 – number of photos added to Facebook monthly
52,000 – number of applications currently available on Facebook
140 - number of new applications added per day
source
Digg stats
236,000,000 – number of visitors attracted annually by 2008 (according to a Compete survey)
56% - percentage of Digg’s frontpage content allegedly controlled by top 100 users
124,340 - number of stories MrBabyMan, the number one user, has Dugg (see updated number here)
612 - number of stories from Cracked.com that have made page 1 of Digg (see all 41 pages of them here)
36,925 – number of Diggs the most popular story in the last 365 days has received (see story here)"
- Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats (view on Google Sidewiki)