This news it a tad old, and who knows really how they estimated these numbers, but it’s kind of interesting for reference. I’m a bit skeptical that Blogger, Diaryland and LiveJournal have 50% of their registered blogs updated, but that may be true. Japan isn’t even in the top 10. Farsi and Icelandic beat out Japanese.
Blogging is only done by 2% of those online. It’s important to remeber that.
Blogging By The Numbers
People in Japan have been posting logs on the web in far greater numbers and for a far longer time than many of those countries. Heck, even our own company’s top management have “blogs” they update at least twice a month, and have been doing so for years. They just never bothered to call them “blogs”, or used “LiveJournal” or “Blogger” or whatever is mainstream now.
. I wonder if it was a challenge to surf for Japanese sites because of all the incompatible character sets people post webpages in (UTF8, Shift-JIS, EUC, ISO-2022JP, etc.)
Interesting to note the list of languages minus Farsi are essentially derived from Germanic or European roots (I’m not an etymologist, but you know what I mean
Only 2%? Hmmph! Who knew! Beep!
I agree with Matt, It seems that they are only counting a few recognized “blog” tools. Try doing a web search for 過去ログ. Sure the numbers won’t out Japan at the top of the list, but I certainly think they have got to be there somewhere.
And what about Korea? The most “wired” country in the world.
I’d chalk those stats up to blogger arrogence. The belief that everything you do is new and unique