Comments on: Irrasshaimase! The Blog Herald Japan Debuts!!

By: Blog Network Watch » The Blog Herald Launches China Edition

Blog Network Watch » The Blog Herald Launches China Edition — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:06:55 +0000

[...] comes just a few months after The Blog Herald opened its Japanese edition. Here are some words from Splashpress Media’s J. Angelo Racoma: We thought it was worth our [...]

By: Ni Hao! The Blog Herald China Launches! : The Blog Herald

Ni Hao! The Blog Herald China Launches! : The Blog Herald — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:42:36 +0000

[...] here at the Blog Herald always look for ways to reach out to more people. Last March we launched the Blog Herald Japan. Considering that English may not exactly be the most prevalent language in the blogosphere today, [...]

By: Lost in Cyberspace » Blog Archive » Lost In Translation

Lost in Cyberspace » Blog Archive » Lost In Translation — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:15:48 +0000

[...] There has been some discussion around the blogosphere of late about the need to add other languages to your blog, really allowing more people to “join the conversation”; see Lorelle Van Fossen’s guest post at ProBlogger and catch up with what has been happening over at the “Weblog Tools Collection” site and “The Blog Herald“. [...]

By: Las Nuevas Fronteras del Blogging: Traducciones :: Generando Dinero con tus Blogs - ProWeblogs

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:22:59 +0000

[...] March 19th, 2007 Lorelle discute en un post en Problogger.net sobre una nueva tendencia que se está generando de a poco en algunos blogs anglosajones, que es tener una versión del blog en otro idioma, como el castellano o el alemán, como en el caso de Weblog Tools Collection o incluso japonés como lo hace The Blog Herald. [...]

By: Blog Translations: The Next Web Frontier

Blog Translations: The Next Web Frontier — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:54:24 +0000

[...] Weblog Tools Collection is doing it. So is the Blog Herald. Are you doing it? [...]

By: Jessica Doyle

Jessica Doyle — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:58:44 +0000

That is fantastic Tony. I have two friends who prefer writing and reading in Japanese. I will forward them the new Japanese localization. I personally am looking forward to a French version.

By: Maki

Maki — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:30:35 +0000

I love reading Japanese celebrity blogs.. They have an awesome celebrity and idol blog culture that the English speaking world seems to lack.

It’s almost a requirement for Japanese celebrities to have a personal blog that’s available for the public. Kinda like a PR gimmick really but really fun to read. Itoh Misaki’s blog is a great example of how she writes about mundane stuff like food all the time but still manages to get a fairly decent readership because she’s a celebrity n all.

Just checked out the Japanese Blog herald and looks like Ioix did a pretty good work on the translations.. awesome.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:24:28 +0000

Mark, thanks for the complement :) We will be busy enough just to translate what BH offers daily, but eventually we will try to report Japanese blogging scene to the western world in English. Your perspective on the Japanese blogging above is pretty much correct in my experiences.. but we need much deeper study to report it here!

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:08:43 +0000

On a personal note, I’d like to thank Tom and Onishi from IOIX for making this not insignificant achievement possible.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:35:48 +0000

I’m very interested in these language stats. Does anyone know of any resource where one can access a more comprehensive breakdown?

One thing that surprised me, apart from the low numbers for English, was a declining percentage for Mandarin Chinese- when one would have thought this would be the fastest growing.

From what I understand- the style of Japanese blogosphere is different when compared to English language blogs- in that a personal blog might have 20+ short “diary” updates in a day, rather than one or two longer posts. So “volume” language stats become a little less relevant.