That’s what we’re wondering today as we analyze the end-of-year numbers for 2010 as it pertains to our favorite online creative/socializing activities. Roughly 26 million new blogs were started last year. Not bad, but nothing compared with the growth happening in other areas of social media. Take a look.

Since 2004, Technorati has been publishing its annual State of the Blogosphere survey, an insightful look at how blogging habits of individuals and companies continue to evolve. The details for the 2010 survey will be released in November, but Technorati is asking for your input now.

So, Facebook opens up access to a number of Facebook Applications including status updates, notes, links and video, and suddenly, people like Nick O’Neill at AllFacebook think we’ve got a Twitter-killer on our hands.
Mark Hendrickson …

Razorfish‘s Shiv Singh blogs at Going Social Now about a couple of interesting studies released by the agency:
“Digital Mom consists of two companion studies. The first study, conducted by Razorfish focuses on how digital moms …

Mahalo, the human-powered search engine launched in 2007 has added another facet to its angle of curated web content – a Q&A feature called Mahalo Answers. What sets it apart from similar services such as …

A new tool that’s got some ears pricked is Zentact, a contact-amplifying service co-founded by Eric Marcoullier, known for being a key player in the team that developed MyBlogLog and then sold it to Yahoo …

Amy Gahran, E-Media Tidbits editor at PoynterOnline has spotted a few old skool reporters who’ve taken to blogging in response to their recent axing by Gannett, the largest US newspaper publisher and owner of USA …

It’s something industry observers have anticipated for a while, and the Interactive Advertising Bureau has confirmed with the release of its Q3 report of internet advertising revenues in the US, which shows that while performance …

General Electric Co has changed the way it communicates with Wall Street over the past month, sharing news with investors via a relatively new company blog, Reuters reports. The blog, GEReports.com is accompanied by a …