Nielsen just announced that the number of ‘real’ blogs has grown by 30% in the past six months.  During that same time readership of blogs by active internet users has increased by 20%.  RSS?  What is that?  Well it seems like more and more bloggers and blog readers know.  More than 11% of them use RSS to organize and deliver blog content to their computers. 

MSN Spaces grew by 947% attracting more than 3MM visitors in July versus 300K in January.  This earned MSN the number one position in the ‘Year-to-date fastest growing blog and blog hosting sites."

Fark.com grew by 63% and was awarded second place.  Blogger grew by 45% and was awarded third place.  

The bad news?  66% of the people polled in the survey had never heard of RSS.