AOL: 30k blogs.

via Susan Mernit, an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle:

Rick Robinson, vice president for community products at America Online, said his new company's blogging feature, AOL Journals, has about 30,000 registered users so far.

Weblog data we want reported:

• Blogs created by date
• Blogs touched by their blogger by date
• Blog posts by date
• Unique visitors to weblogs
• most popular posts on AOL
• most popular blogs
• Demographics of bloggers, over time (age, gender, location)
• Frequency distributions for posting by time of day and day of week

Comment data we want reported:

• Number of comments posted by date
• Frequency distribution of number of comments per post, monthly

Syndication data we want reported:

• Number of feeds updated by date
• Number of feeds consumed by date

The model for this is LiveJournal's stats.txt feed.