France looks like its becoming the European leader in terms of blog numbers according to new reports indicating that some 3 million blogs now exist created in France.
Business Week reports that 5% of the entire French population now writes a blog, compared with an estimated 3% of people in the United States, which give France’s population of just over 60 million people equates to 3 million, which also tallies with the always excellent LoicLeMeur Wiki of the European blogosphere which also estimates a figure of 3 million people. Of interest in the LoicLeMeur Wiki figures is that over 2 million of the blogs are said to be hosted on Skyblog (2.4 million at the time of writing), which is described as a main stream media blogging service. The strong market position of Skyblog would make in unique in the blogosphere globally with the exception of non-roman lettering markets, where services such as Blogger, Spaces and Six Apart Live Journal tend to dominate over local offerings.
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The last number I heard for the UK was 700,000. It must surely be more than that, especially if the French can manage 3 million? Thanks for the link, Duncan :-)
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BusinessWeek assigned a name to its new real estate blog that is already in use:
http://therealtygram.typepad.com/realtygram_blogger/2005/07/will_the_real_h.html
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Please, dont say “he’s always excellent”…
Yesterday, he created a very bad polemic.
He wrote, then deleted this part in this post :
“si j’hébergeais ce blog, je crois que j’aurais vraiment envie de suspendre avec l’avis d’un avocat cette note infâme.”
cf :
http://www.loiclemeur.com/france/2005/07/quelquun_sait_q.html
I let you translate and make your optinion.
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Here too :
http://iblog.typepad.com/iblog_eng/2005/07/censorship_drif.html