The 2008 BlogWorld & New Media Expo will take place September 20-21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. They also offer an "Executive & Entrepreneur" conference beginning September 19th. They claim to be the “first and only industry-wide tradeshow, conference, and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of blogging and new media.” We have arrived as blogs play Vegas. But this time what happens will hopefully not stay there. They have a blog conference blog also.
It is interesting that some of the sponsors are bloggers, as well as companies that provide blog services. The site offered some interesting stats. Here are a few. Go to the conference site for more and for links to their sources in some cases.
89% of companies surveyed say they think blogs will be more important in the next five years.
There are over 1.4 million new blog posts every day and 120,000 new blogs are created every day.
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22 of the 100 most popular websites in the world are blogs.
6% of the entire US adult population has created a blog, over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog and over 57 million Americans read blogs.
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