Comments on: 20% of Spanish people have blogs, 11% of Dutch people: report

By: tnarik

tnarik — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 08:58:48 +0000

if you read the report, you will see that it says that the 20% o Spanish people which has a PC at home or a mobile phone (and it would be great checking how did they get that list [maybe from registrations on a Internet service?]) uses a services called “Blogging” (which could be reading or writing). which was the question?

“have you ever used a blog?”, is a question which can be answer yes if you read them or if you write on them (and comments are also writing).

pay attention to your headlines.

By: Robert Basic

Robert Basic — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:31:38 +0000

“11 percent of Dutch people have a blog, compared with 20 percent of Spanish people”

The Netherlands have around 16 mill. residents => 11% .. no way!
Spain has ~43 mill… even 20% blogs??
Following the comment no.1, i dont buy that Germany has about 8 mio Blogs and so on and so on (in reality there are between 60.000-250.00 active german blogs, nobody does know it exactly)

Its not a big deal imho, but dont believe numbers even – imho – you seems to like the whole world blogging :-)

By: Netwalker

Netwalker — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:42:32 +0000

The 2 million myspace users mentioned by Julio are correct, but they also include the Latin American blogosphere.

I have seen many times, when they mention something about spanish it’s referring to Spain and all the Latin American countries (which also speak spanish).

By: mmeida

mmeida — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:32:17 +0000

As Julio says, this is a great surprise for those that we follow closely the Spanish blogosphere. Almost 9 millions of blogs? But, where do they get? As trackbacks doesn`t rule, this is the URL of my post about this news.

By: Julio Alonso

Julio Alonso — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:33:18 +0000

I haven't read the mentioned report, but that sounds way to high for me, at least in regards to Spanish blogs. The most optimistic count I've seen is a PR note from Microsoft that mentions 2 million myspace users quoting Nielsen/Net Ratings info. Being the single country with higher myspace penetration (due to very high messenger usage and MS market share?), that's about 4.5% of the population and way below what's mentioned on this post.

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:39:17 +0000

Just have a look at the Intel Digital Lifestyle report 2005 where this is taken from. I’m sure you will find an English version as well as it is a research that is done in 7 European countries (including UK).

For the Dutch readers:

(…) Niet minder dan 11% van de Nederlandse respondenten geeft aan een weblog te hebben. Als we echter in Europees verband kijken loopt Nederland bepaald niet voorop. In Spanje zegt maar liefst 20% te bloggen, onder de Spaanse vrouwen is het zelfs 22%. ItaliÃ« volgt met 14%. Frankrijk (10%), Duitsland (10%), Groot-BrittanniÃ« (7%) en Zweden (7%) laten we wel achter ons (…)