My muse is yearning for arousal, conjuring, carousal.
Bursting to surrender
to merriment, bathe in creativity, immerse in  edifying sensuousness.
Seeking the death
Of delusion, confusion, and all stifling trivialities.
Coveting the return
Of artistic succumbing, flamboyant brandishings, and ecstatic un-benumbings.
Pursuing most intrepidly
The genius epiphany, the guffawing hoot, the intangible booty.

Questing to tangiblize the intangible booty!

Oh, yes, the drunken Sun is shining.
The drunken Sun is shining and I’m awash in its indulgence.

Flare up, blaze away, deluge me endlessly with your eidetic photonic-simplicity,

O brilliant Illuminance, the hence and whence of life.

How small was xanga when I joined (year 2000)?

                       
Tens
to hundreds of bloggers just figuring things out.

                       
Many
of whom were “seeded” by xanga itself.

                       
You
could visit and comment on  practically
everyone everyday.

                       
There
were less than 200,000 bloggers worldwide.

How big is xanga now? 

Estimate:           8.2
million current xanga blogs.

                       
16,000
new xanga blogs (and growing) daily.
                        
               
        1,140 posts per minute (at noon today).

                       
12.3
million xanga blogs by year’s end.

                       
Represents
about 23% of entire 35.7 million blogs worldwide.

Interested in the history of the growth of blogging?  Look here.