Excellent graphs + article on blog sw market share

A bit long, but here's an excellent article about blog sw market share by Elise Bauer (elise.com).  This is an update to an earlier article last August by the same author.

The writeup is intriguing, however the real gems of the piece are the charts/graphs below:

(note: my edits on the chart above to highlight SixApart properties -- click to see original)

I'm always curious that many people (including several excellent writers/analysts) tend to emphasize words over their pictures.  Even when the pictures are crappy, they often communicate concepts a lot better than well-written text.  Especially when the pictures are as good as the ones above, i'd always lead with the graphics.  Anyway, just an aside... regardless, the article is tremendous.

on a related note, see a graph of recent podcast growth by Netcraft (on Feedburner).