There are few credible estimates about the number of online blogs
(one enthusiast tracks offline - ie dead - blogs here) or their growth.
Many figures are contradictory or merely self-serving.
Wired News noted claims that in January 2002 alone some 41,000
people created new blogs using Blogger and that there were then
more than 500,000. In August 2002 another source claimed that
Blogger had 350,000 users, with converts supposedly "creating a
new weblog every 40 seconds, or more than 60,000 a month". By
early 2006 that had risen to around 160,000 per month (albeit