Kevin Burton takes a deeper look at the Technorati numbers, and comes up with some interesting stats on the number of active blogs (as opposed to the raw number of existing blogs - including splogs). He comes down to two interesting conclusions:

1. There are something like 1.6M - 6.4M active blogs (active meaning at least a post every other day)
2. The number of posts is growing lineraly (not exponentially, as the raw number of blogs is)

Read the whole thing. Good stuff.