internet - The China weblog number game

Guessing how many weblogs there are in China has reached a new height with the estimate of the Beijing market research firm Analysys, estimating the number at 33.4 million weblogs at the end of the third quarter, according to the IDG-news service, up from 14,5 million in January.
Analysys looked in the number of registered users among the total number 105 million internet users China had in September according to the Ministry of Information Industry. It does not yet say what percentage of the weblogs is actually active.
Deductions from the earlier internet research by Guo Liang of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences suggests that earlier this year only 4.5 million weblogs were active, but in a period of explosive growth that figure might get outdated very fast.