Saturday, July 26, 2003
The numbers on blogging
Robyn Greenspan writing on Cyber Atlas has the newest numbers on blogging worldwide. There appear to be about 2.4 to 2.9 million active weblogs, of which approx 1.6 million blogs are hosted by the 3 biggies -- Blogger, LiveJournal and DiaryLand. As was the case with the Internet itself, a big majority of the blogs are written in English, with Portuguese, Polish and Farsi taking second, third and fourth spots (whatever happened to French and Spanish?) respectively. I wonder if the high number of Farsi blogs indicate anything about Iran's hopes for real democracy. If my gut were true, it would be very interesting to look at the numbers on Chinese language blogs. Does anyone have the numbers?
