A new blog is created every second, more than half of them are still going three months after creation, and the number of blogs has been doubling every six months for some time.
This, and lots of other good stuff, can be found on a page on Dave Sifry’s site.
Status-Q, for what it’s worth, is more than 5 years old now. I wasn’t very early to the game, either, but looking at these graphs makes me feel like a pioneer… 🙂