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Slowly coming to grips with international blogs

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 03

It was almost embarrassing. At the BDI conference on blogging that’s going on a couple blocks from here, someone asked if blogs were a big deal outside the U.S. The panelists barely seemed to know. PubSub founder Bob Wyman had to grab the mike and set the record straight.

He said that there were more bloggers in Korea, China and Japan combined than in the rest of the world. He said Brazil was “totally bloghappy.”

According to Wyman, whose company monitors blogs, countries take to blogging one by one. And it happens quickly. The Philippines got the fever six months ago. Today, "hundreds of thousands of Malaysian blogs are popping up."

Wyman's advice for companies who want to monitor blogs: "Get some language skills."

For a window into the international scene, check out this page, Global Voices, from Harvard. Also, lots of international links on Rebecca MacKinnon's RConversation blog.

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Reader Comments

Christian

May 3, 2005 11:25 PM

Also, you don't have to go much farther than the 2005 bloggie awards to see a great sampling of international blogs -- the latest categories even included New Zealand.
http://2005.bloggies.com/

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May 4, 2005 01:08 AM

where do people think the over 8 million blogs exist? NYC?

really, i am commenting to take you guys to task for not mentioning a certain person's birthday in any 02May posts.

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May 4, 2005 03:58 AM

Dan Forbush (ProfNet) mentioned a directory of PR/Communications blogs, organized by countries. Here's the URL:
http://www.bloglines.com/public/prblogs

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May 4, 2005 04:55 AM

You know what it is with some English/American speakers who don't master another language (which would be most of them...), if they can't understand it, it doesn't exist.

The Netherlands are catching on. You may not be able to read most of them, but they are there.
http://www.web-log.nl/

Per Mosseby

May 4, 2005 06:34 AM

Or, Sweden's 50 most popular blogs below. Quite a few of them are published in English even though the authors are Swedish. It seems like we want to reach out ;)

http://internetworld.idg.se/ArticlePages/200504/21/20050421090944_IW151/20050421090944_IW151.dbp.asp (Swedish)

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May 4, 2005 09:17 PM

Can't let India go unnoticed can we? Try a random sampling of English blogs from Indians in this week's 'blogmela' nominations at
http://avoo.blogspot.com/2005/04/blog-mela-is-coming-to-town.html

Baker responds: Thanks for this. I'll have a look

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May 31, 2005 02:55 PM

Amongst my personal favourite Indian blogs is http://www.debonairblog.com/blog . Just the thing what the doctored ordered for making blog's popular amongst Indians!

Regards,

Raju.

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June 13, 2005 05:34 AM

Blogs know no boundaries…Take the example of the blog on Offshoring, outsourcing and internationalization
http://offshoringmanagement.rediffblogs.com/

This can be accessed from anywhere…therefore the debate over ‘international blogs’ is moot. (except for the language barrier, of course)

Gautam

July 22, 2005 02:59 PM

Some other sites for tracking Indian blogs are:

http://indibloggers.blogspot.com/
http://indianbloggers.blogspot.com/
http://india.blogstreet.com

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