Howdy! — or should I say “g’day, mate!” since I’m in Sydney for WordCamp Australia? November was a fun month, and the final month of development for WordPress 2.7 — coming very soon. It’s been an exciting process, and we think you’ll become a big fan of the changes that you’ll see in your dashboards.

Here are the stats from November:

  • 315,405 blogs were created.
  • 334,578 new users joined.
  • 3,896,520 file uploads.
  • 1930.90 gigabytes of new files.
  • 562 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
  • 8,072,704 comments.
  • 6,567,942 logins.
  • 994,340,222 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 777,087,121 on self-hosted blogs (1,771,427,343 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
  • 1,463,666 active blogs and 17,433,783 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor.
  • 1,083,163,397 words.

Plus:

Mobile posts are on the rise: you made 44,265 posts to WordPress from a mobile device in November — up from 35,016 the month before.

You’ve been checking out WordPress blogs through the LinkedIn app: 1,169,596 views were generated by links from your LinkedIn profiles and homepages this month.

TIME’s Liveblog Election ’08 site, powered by WordPress.com VIP, provided insightful and funny to-the-minute coverage during the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election.

Some of you wrote your first opus and posted it to your blog during National Novel Writing Month. Congrats!

November WordCamps: Argentina, Charlotte (North Carolina), Tel Aviv, WordCamp Ed (Washington, D.C.), Australia, Spain.

Upcoming WordCamps in December: None! Enjoy the holidays. We’ll see you at WordCamp Las Vegas, WordCamp Indonesia, and WordCamp Whistler (BC, Canada) in January.