Blogging Stats of Technorati: English no longer main language.

von Roland Hachmann | Mai 1, 2006 | Blog, Digital Culture

David Sifry, founder of Technorati, hast posted a new „state of the blogosphere„.

There is some interesting facts in there, a summary of the main points:

• Technorati now tracks over 35.3 37.3 Million blogs
• The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months
• It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
• On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day
• 19.4 million bloggers (55%) are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created
• Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour

Interesting stats. However, one thing struck me: English isn’t the most commonly used language any longer. English isn’t even the primary language of one third of all posts now, with only 31% in April. Japanese seems to be the main language (37%). So what are the other languages of the blogosphere?

Japanese, Chinese, English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and German are the languages with the greatest number of posts tracked by Technorati.

And another thing curious about the way people post to their blogs around the world:

Japanese bloggers appear to write shorter posts more often. This could be a result of blogging from mobile phones

So in fact, because the Japanese post stuff about everything from anywhere makes them the champions?

The language analysis goes by „posts“, not origin (as they admit themselves).
I would really like to know, where the most bloggers are located. There might be many like myself who don’t write in their mother tongue, but instead write in English, because that’s the language to write in, if you want to be understood by the majority on the net.

Save the Internet and sign up for Net Neutrality

von Roland Hachmann | Apr. 24, 2006 | Blog, Digital Culture

There is a fairly new and highly discussed movement going on, called: Save the Internet.

What does it mean, and what is this movement for? David Weinberger has answers:

Net neutrality (formerly known as the end-to-end principle) means that the people who provide connections to the Internet don’t get to favor some bits over others. This principle is not only under attack, it’s about to be regulated out of existence.

For more detail you can also check out the FAQ page of savetheinternet.com.

As Jeff Jarvis writes:

The age of business models built on scarcity and on keeping your customers from doing what they want to do is over. Now we just have to make sure that Congress doesn’t try to keep it on artificial life support.

That seems to be a big discussion in the US, while it seems strange to me, that a freedom orientated society like them might actually face such a self-imposed threat?

But then again: what IF we are currently living in an extraordinary timeslot? What IF content distribution goes back to what it used to be – large corporations dictating (programming) or at least controlling content distribution. And charging for it, too, of course. In 20 years people will have forgotten, that you could ever download content for free or make free PC-to-PC calls.

Just a thought. Please don’t say: „if you’re not with us, you’re with them“.

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