The international adoption curve for blogs is as uneven as anything else. while in America over 60 percent of the Internet citizenry has not heard of blogs, 20 percent of Japanese users read blogs at least once a month. Forecasts call for over 40 percent of Japanese Internet users reading blogs within two years. On the creative side, at the end of March 3.35-million Japanese blogs were being updated at least monthly. There are about nine-million American blogs. Technorati and BlogPulse are tracking about 10-million Weblogs; makes you wonder which millions of blogs are being missed, and how the tracking can be improved. (The Japanese statistics are from the Japan Media Review, by way of EditorsWeblog.)
1. I just commented on this on our team blog ... The Linguist is a site for helping people learn English, and a huge number of our users are Japanese.
In fact, we're considering incorporating blogging into our learning system:
http://blogs.thelinguist.com/?p=15
Posted at 4:46AM on Dec 19th 2005 by John Koetsier