All this week, Technorati is releasing its 2008 State of the Blogosphere. Thus far they’ve profiled the bloggers, explored blog topics and styles, and examined the business of blogging.

Catharine P. Taylor over at SocialMediaInsider reflected today that we don’t often give blogs their due. Blogs went so quickly from novelty to mainstream, and were in some respects overshadowed by other more addictive technologies like social networks and microblogs. With 900,000 blog posts every 24 hours, posting has become part of the daily rhythm of life for roughly 23 million US bloggers. Perhaps blogging has become the dial tone of social media: we’ve grown so used to it we just expect it to be there.