Microsoft Claims Huge Blog Numbers

Posted on April 22, 2005

In a new Wall Street Journal article Walter S. Mossberg writes, "Microsoft says it already has more than seven million blogs in Spaces, and is adding new ones at a rate of over 100,000 a day." 100,000 a day? That is difficult to believe. Is Mossberg certain that they meant new blogs and not new blog posts? Mossberg also reviewed the service and launched his own MSN Spaces blog called Walt's Baseball Musings. Here is what Mossberg thinks about MSN Spaces:

My verdict: MSN Spaces is very well done. It makes it easy to create a simple, attractive blog with text, links and photos, and to customize the blog in interesting ways.

The blogs Microsoft allows you to create in Spaces can be very attractive, but, in my judgment, the system doesn't allow as much customization or tweaking as Blogger does. Still, Spaces offers all the basics.