I’m busy, but that is no excuse. I find myself reminding my clients that they should post as often as they can find the time, and yet lately I haven’t been the best example of that myself (a goal that I set from the beginning).

So I’m publicly vowing to post more often, even when I just have a random thought or observation that I think is worth sharing with the world. Some of my favorite blogs don’t stay “on topic” at all, so if you’re a regular reader, you might get more of “me” interspersed with my morsels of marketing and PR advice.

But the marketing wisdom will keep coming, too. I recently had an offline conversation with a certain author and web content expert, and it reminded me of how exciting all of this change and conversation and community-mindedness can get. And I want to keep my finger on the pulse of all of that action. Not because I feel obligated, but because I love it.

By the way, if you want to experience the process of authoring a book from the “blog up,” check out David’s post about his new book, “The New Rules of Marketing and PR.” This is obviously a topic that is very relevant to me, and I for one will be watching, commenting and taking notes throughout the process. It seems that this is the future of publishing; establishing an audience early, and develop the book through a series of blog posts and of course the comments and suggestions of others. It will only be a matter of time before it catches on outside of the “tech” sector.
Hope you’re having a great summer!

Via Mack Collier of The Viral Garden, David Sifry’s (Founder of Technorati) latest “State of the Blogosphere.”

So just how big is the blogosphere?

Well, according to Technorati, it’s 100 times bigger than it was just three years ago. It doubles in size every 200 days. On average, two blogs are created in every second of every day, around the world. There are an average of 1.6 million posts a day, or about 18.6 per second.

Wow.

I guess I better go out and get myself a copy of “The Long Tail” by Chris Anderson, before they’re all gone.

Found this via Chris Thilk: Day of the Longtail Trailer.

Here it is, in all its YouTube glory:

Later: What the deuce?? It seems I’m having a little trouble embedding a YouTube video here…Instead, here’s a link while I work out the problem.