China's famous actress Xu Jinglei's blog. Some 17.5 million blogs are being published in China, according to new research from an internet organisation. China has around 75 million regular blog readers, representing slightly more than 61 per cent of its online population of 123 million, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) reported. The actual number of people who have signed up with accounts at blogging services in China is even higher than these figures, reaching almost 34 million by the end of August this year, the CNNIC says. However, half of these accounts have not yet been put into regular use by their owners. Such 'sleeping blogs' are a huge waste of internet resources, the CNNIC argued in a statement issued. Of the 17.5 million blogs that are in use, the CNNIC describes 7.7 million as 'active'. The organisation defines active blogs as those which are updated at least once a month. At the current rate of growth, the number of active blogs in China will most likely exceed 10 million by the end of the year. Globally, some 175,000 new blogs are being created every day, according to David Sifry, founder and chief executive of popular blog search site Technorati. Technorati indexes blogs in many languages, including Chinese, and tracks more than 55 million blogs in total. Related story : 新聞熱詞blog (Agencies)

據互聯網組織的一項最新調查顯示，目前我國博客數量已達1750萬左右。 中國互聯網絡信息中心公布的一項調查報告顯示，中國的活躍博客讀者達7500萬人左右，占1.23億網民總數的61％之多。 據中國互聯網絡信息中心介紹，截至今年8月底，中國注冊博客的實際人數已達3400萬，遠遠大于以上數字。 中國互聯網絡信息中心在其發表的一份聲明中稱，有一半的博客空間并沒有正常更新，這些"“睡眠博客”是對互聯網資源的巨大浪費。 在1750萬個博客空間中，只有770萬個“活躍博客”（每月至少更新一次）。 按目前的速度發展，到今年年底，中國的活躍博客數量有望突破1000萬。 據熱門博客搜索引擎Technorati的創建者及首席執行官大衛·西弗里介紹，目前全世界每天新增約17.5萬個博客。 Technorati將博客按照多種語言編入索引，其中包括中文。目前，Technorati共能搜索到5500多萬個博客。 (英語點津姍姍編輯)