Here is an excellent survey (pdf/just out) from IPSOS. First time ever 5000 europeans are asked specific questions about blogging, how they trust them and how it impacts their buying habits. Below a few highlights. 
and... 39 Europeans did not buy products because of the user generated comments they read on the web.
Top blogs spain and top blogs France, a spanish initiative by Alianzo Networks.
Thomas Crampton tries to understand in International Herald Tribune why blogs are so mainstream in France:
"Already famed for angry labor strikes and philosophical debates in smoke-filled cafés, the French have now brought these passions online to become some of the world's most intensive bloggers. The French distinguish themselves, both statistically and anecdotally, ahead of Germans, Britons and even Americans in their obsession with blogs, the personal and public journals of the Internet age. Just why the French have embraced blogs more than most is anyone's guess, but explanations range from technical to historical and cultural."Thanks Thomas for quoting me.
Dave Sifry has just published his blog infoporn:
* Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs
* The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half 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
* 13.7 million bloggers are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created
* Spings (Spam Pings) can sometimes account for as much as 60% of the total daily pings Technorati receives
* Sophisticated spam management tools eliminate the spings and find that about 9% of new blogs are spam or machine generated
* Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour
* Over 81 Million posts with tags since January 2005, increasing by 400,000 per day
* Blog Finder has over 850,000 blogs, and over 2,500 popular categories have attracted a critical mass of topical bloggers
disclosure: I invested in Technorati
Today, Mediametrie-Nielsen announced the very first survey of blogs, which they have done using a software-spy (with the user agreement !) on 8000 computers around France. They compare the data collected using a phone survey of 12 000 people...
If you speak French, I podcasted the Internet head of Mediametrie, François-Xavier Hussherr.
Here are the numbers in October 05:
-73% of French internet users know what a blog is, 9 web user on 10 of 15-24 age know blogs.
-blogs are read by 3 web users on 10, or 6,7 million french, or 28% of French internet users
-1 on 10 have created a blog or 2 271 000 french people or 9,3% french internet users
-8 bloggers on 10 are less than 24 years old
-the three first blogging platforms
1. Skyblog
17,5% of internet users or 3 428 000 French people have read a Skyblog
2. Six Apart
11,3% of internet users or 2 212 000 French people have read a Six Apart blog (TypePad, Live Journal, U-blog)
3. Over blog
9,3% of internet users or 1 815 000 French people.
Six Apart blogs are 15 times more read than Skyblog in average per blog
-Skyrock has 3 428 000 internet readers and today they announce 3 376 941 blogs, that is around 1 reader per created blog
-Six Apart has 2 271 000 internet users who read around 150 000 Six Apart blogs in France (we don't communicate the split per brand or the exact number so you will have to trust me on this one) which is 15 readers in average per blog and our blogs are read by 15 times more readers than Skyblog.
Dave Sifry just published the usual statistics: the size of the blogosphere has doubled again, with no signs of slower growth.
Inspired by a Boingboing note, here is a cool way to surf the blogs, Google image them by restricting the search to the domain. On this blog the results are funny, I wonder how Google ranks them. Anyway, I realize how sick I am as I blogged 4130 pictures in two years, but this is no news, I am sick. Thanks, Lifeblog.
Thanks to AtikiBlog [FR] I discover the live PubSub 1000: "the list of the most consistently influential sites that publish feeds, based on their average LinkRank scores over the past 30 days" as PubSub describes it. Other ego lists: Technorati top 100 (live) and Feedster 500 (august 2005). PubSub averaged over 16 million sources.
All these lists provide different results as the exercise is difficult, but what I like about this one is that it takes into account the full domain and not the blogs themselves and does not exclude the non english speaking blogs like Feedster does. I had written a post to explain myself more on this: the world goes beyond english speaking blogs.
#1 is bbc.co.uk
#2 is the New York Times
#3 is the Washingtonpost
#4 is news.bbc.co.uk
#5 is CNN
#6 is Google ???!
#14, the first blog looks like boingboing no surprise
#18 the second is dailykos
Ego surfing: the blogs on this domain loiclemeur.com (EN, FR and moblog) are #451
Joi is talking about TV commercials for blogs in Japan and radio shows asking the audience to trackback their blog. He keeps being asked, like me often in Europe too, wether it's a fad or not with such a heavy buzz around it.
I really like Jim O'Connel's comment on Joi's post:
"I doubt that in five years you'll hear the word "blog" any more than you here the word "Cyber" these days. It's a fad, of course, be it Japan or anywhere else.
Blogging will disappear. Not in the sense that it won't be there, but in the way it will become so ubiquitous that you won't notice it. The functionalities that blogging has introduced are too useful to go away. Comments, trackbacks, syndication, aggregation, APIs for personal web services are all things that while at present aren't perfect, show so much potential for changing the way we communicate and form relationships."
I fully agree. It will just become part of our lives such as email and the web. We won't talk about it, it will be everywhere. I'm so glad Mena was clever enough to choose TypePad and Movable Type as our brands, and not blog-something. Having said that let me come back to my daily evangelization about blogs so that we don't talk about it anymore as soon as possible...
"When you say there are a lot of lies out there, if you go randomly picking up pieces of paper in the street or leafing through garbage at the garbage dump what are the chances you'll find something reliable written on the paper that you find there? Very small. When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?
But when you use the web, you follow links and you should keep bookmarks of the places where following links turns out to be a good idea. When you go to a site and it gives you pointers to places that you find are horrible or unreliable, then don't go there again.
You see out there right now, for example, when you look at bloggers some of them are very careful. A good blogger when he says that something's happened will have a point to back, and there's a certain ethos within the blogging community, you always point to your source, you point all the way back to the original article. If you're looking at something and you don't know where it comes from, if there's no pointer to the source, you can ignore it."
From a BBC Interview by Mark Lawson.
It is in Paris, on September 11th, there is a brand new blog (that officially starts on august 15th) to gather everything that happens around the festival, links to all the comic-strip bloggers participants and lots of virtual and real meetings around Comic Strip Blogs. Very proud to be one of the partners.
Comscore has just released a survey (that Six Apart sponsored but of course without any influence on the results) that was based on data produced using comScore's panel of about 2 million Internet users. The survey is available as pdf under the title of "Behaviors of the Blogosphere: Understanding the Size, Composition and Activities of Weblog Readers". Here are the key findings:
-50 million U.S. Internet users visited blog sites in the first quarter of 2005. That is 30% of all U.S. Internet users and 16 % of the U.S. population
-5 hosting services for blogs each had more than 5 million unique visitors and four individual blogs had more than 1 million visitors each
According to comScore, the typepad.com and blogs.com domains combined reached 9,5 million unique visitors and the audience growth from last year is +240%.
I apologize for not blogging as frequently as I used to, but I am using my evening time to write my first book, and it takes all of it. Its title is "Blog pour les pros", in French, to begin with, I am sure you get it, it means "blog for pros". Its not really a book about corporate blogging, for that expect Shel Israel's and Robert Scoble's book Naked Conversations, it is more general about blogging in a professional environment such as corporations obviously, but also media, politics and self-employed independents (think about Treonauts, Andrew lives on his blog now). It will also provide tips on how to create and write what I consider a good blog. Why in French ? Well I never wrote a book, so I thought starting in my native french could be a good idea, and case studies will be mostly french or european, I will try to avoid as much as possible talking about the examples we all know about (and talked too much about maybe). If you read french, there is a category on my blog, blog pour les pros.
Steven Vincent, who had written a recent piece in the New York Times this past weekend, was also blogging from Baghdad and just died. He was working on a book on life in post-liberation Basra. More: Freedom's Reporter, a nationalreview article. Many comments on his last post and Mitchell Muncy's post unfortunately announcing the bad news. I feel bad posting about this but it makes me think of a conversation between Akma and Joi who where talking about making sure your weblog stays on even after your life. Apparently we have a "memorial" account status in LiveJournal. Thanks, Anil.
Hugh MacLeod and Alistair Shrimpton are assembling a central database of people who design blogs and websites professionally. Excellent initiative. via Heiko.
Dennis insists on the fact that since 9/11, the US started to enforce its visa rules concerning journalists entering the country and bloggers could be just considered like journalists and require a special visa:
"So while the blogosphere may be considered a great thing for freedom of expression, there is always the risk that high profile, non-US bloggers will be refused entry to the US. Especially if they make what US immigration officials consider anti-American comments on their sites.
You can argue that blogging isn't journalism but a personal expression of opinion. If my experience is anything to go by, that won't cut any ice with immigration officials. "
hum...
Update: the article is longer on the paper version now available on-line, with an illustration. According to Carol Matlack of Business Week in Paris, an estimated 5% of the French have setup blogs, where 3% have done the same in the USA. See this week's Business Week: Liberté, Egalité... and Blogging.
Thanks, Carol, for the "blog guru" :-)
In the French daily (well known) Libération today:
Matthieu Guinard, General Manager of Lycos France said "Lycos will launch in September a revolutionary blog software compared to anything that exists on the market today".
I am confused by a discussion that happened on my French blog today, when you live in a Country like mine where english is not the natural language, you have four ways of approaching the problem:
1. blog only in english, then you're not close to your local audience, or blog only in local (French for me) and you can't create a global conversation
2. mix english posts and french posts, like Martinepage this of course is a problem for those who only read English (or French) because they are disturbed by other posts they cannot read
3. translate every single post in both languages, like Emmanuelle is doing, probably the best solution but that is very difficult for the author because he has to translate every single post and that takes a long time. Also, it prevents the author in a way to talk only about local topics as even though they would be translated, they would probably not be interesting to a global audience. I should say I am tempted by this option
4. two blogs, one in English, one in French, the option I chose. This option has some drawbacks too, the blogs are less powerful in search engines because split in two. For example the Technorati links are spread in two and do not add-up here is what happens for me:
-my French blog has 1219 links from 750 sources
-my English blog has 468 links from 320 sources
the result should be 2906 links from ? sources where the entire domain shows 2195 links from 1213 sources. This shows that the numbers do not add up easily and that there are many people not linking to the blogs but directly to the domain...
When you look at the ranking of the European blogosphere we did with 50 bloggers, it clearly shows the demand for local Country rankings and a global European one. But Europe is a mix of languages and cultures, and also of ways of blogging (people like Heiko are Germans but only blog in English, while others only blog in their language...)
So what should be the right way of blogging multilingual according to you ?
What should be the right way to show rankings of these blogs using Technorati ? Thanks for your help...
The French blog platform Skyblog, that claims 2.2 million young French people weblogs, was analyzed by François. It is in French, but the Alexa graphs are self explanatory. I heard several bad comments on the Alexa results, what's your opinion ?
I'd like to say first I started this page not because I was lazy (but Euan was joking I know that), but because there is nobody in Europe that can pretend to be able to present honestly the European blogosphere: do you read Italian, Portuguese, Danish, and the other 19 languages (I believe we have 22 on the 25 EU countries, plus the other ones like eastern...) ?
The best we can all do is help each other understand it better.
Please add your name to the main page if you contributed to this work otherwise it is difficult to know. Thank you Jacques, Nicole, Matthias, Neil, Euan, Thomas, Francesco, Julio, Fernando, Christophe, Justin, Frank, Stefan, Max, Marco, Hugo, Michael, Ton, Alex, Pedro, Björn, Janne and Jose, Paolo ! I have listed people who have identified themselves but I know many others like Tom actually helped.
I knew I did not know that much about the European blogosphere, and I learned a lot today about it, such as Nancy White, who has very good comments.
Doc said that I should play more with the new search options of Technorati because it works very well, so here I am playing with the European blogosphere watchlist and I must say it works terrific (it looks like it has missed your post however).
I was curious to follow how the page with the top european bloggers changed and of course I was very surprised to see Michael Hellemann showing up #1 with 8033 links from 7152 sources. I regret that I missed the opportunity of discussing this with him in Copenhagen so I tried to understand and it looks like the WP plugin he designed, Kubrick, got him out of the Technorati 100 where he peaked #8 in spring of 2005. This leads me to two questions: why has he been deleted from the list and should he be removed from this one too. I guess it probably creates artificial links, sorry for my ignorance. What do you think ? Michael ?
Last idea, I wonder if we should have all put this work on Wikipedia ? Clearly, the manual ranking by Technorati links of top european bloggers has nothing to do there for example, especially as it is out of date the minute you write a name. I would be interested in your thoughts as well. Thanks again.
Update: Florian has a podcast of my speech about the wiki and the European blogosphere.
Technorati Tags: reboot
OK, thank you all for your help, the presentation starts in 5 minutes, no fucking powerpoint, just the wiki
Technorati Tags: reboot
Ulla-Maaria Mutanen had a great talk today about how The Long tail of Fashion and how thousands of fashion bloggers exchange their creative work, learn about each other's ideas and problems.
Ulla-Maaria showed pictures of self made shirts and hats, ipod covers and said:
"Craftblogging is based on the idea that people like to create outfits. They can be t-shirts, tops, bags, skirts, hats or the very famous ipod covers. People blog a lot about them.
The biggest group of craftblogs belong to young woman, but not only woman, from older ladies to snowboarders, and skateborders. Outwear.com was established by a group in Finland and the business is developing fast.
Craftblogging is based on the idea that people like to create outfits. They can be t-shirts, tops, bags, skirts, hats or the very famous ipod covers. People blog a lot about them.
New forms of social and economic behaviour emerge around crafting, like sharing techniques (Stencil revolution, for instance) or swapping: you post something you like and expect to swap with someone that likes the things you do. You just post the picture of the fashion work is sent to you. Sampling & Personalizing is also beginning to be popular through blogging.
Ulla-Maaria also talked about ShowStudio:
“SHOWstudio is based on the belief that showing the entire creative process—from conception to completion—is beneficial for the artist, the audience and the art itself.”
Ulla-Maaria is always asked when she talks about it if there is a market and she took the example of Japanesestreets.com that grows on the fact that people think it is much cooler to buy clothes that your friends or yourself have made than the ones made by big fashion brands. The long tail of fashion will create a totally new market.
David Weinberger (who already posted about it) says that "marketers who look at the long tail usually say "great we'll be able to target markets of one" and you have made a great example of how wrong they are". Picture: Heiko.
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, organizer of Reboot, asked me if I could make a presentation on the european blogosphere tomorrow.
This is quite ambitious, of course I know very well France that has millions of blogs already, I also know some good cases in a few countries, but I would really appreciate if you could help me, so I have put a wiki page up, the european blogosphere.
It is really the beginning of this assessment, I am planning to add as much as I can until tomorrow, as well as during and after the presentation.
Technorati Tags: reboot
Robert at Reboot 7.0:
"I don't keep an email contact list anymore: all my friends are bloggers and if they are not they will be soon so I just google my friends, I just have to remember their name. This is why I put my email address and my mobile number on my home page. If I can't find you how to talk to you, it adds to much friction, I go find somebody else. "
Technorati Tags: reboot
Blogging becomes a corporate job; digital handshake ? From the Wall Street Journal. Article available for free.
"A small but growing number of businesses are hiring people to write blogs, otherwise known as Web logs, or frequently updated online journals. Companies are looking for candidates who can write in a conversational style about timely topics that would appeal to customers, clients and potential recruits."
It is really cool, I think we'll see more and more bloggers be able to live from their passion. Via Pointblog (fr)
It looks like a manual ranking based on Technorati results of the British most linked-to blogs. Technorati has open APIs, can this be done automatically ? Via Hugh.
This time it is Télérama's turn to choose blogs as a cover page, I have startes below a collection of cover pages. Three of the five titles on this page have either blogs for some journalists or offer blogs to their readers. Normal buzz because the phenomenon is huge or too much hype ?
French frogs everywhere. Next saturday, May 28th, in a city near you in New-York City.
You write three times as much on my blog as I write myself and I am very proud of it:
Posts
946 - english blog
1463 - french blog
964 - moblog (images)
Comments
1954 - english blog
7015 - french blog
282 - moblog
I wonder why there are so many more comments on my french blog compared to this one. I must be less boring in french ;-)
What do you think is the reason ?
You know we want to preserve French. Well, our "Journal Officiel" has given an official translation to the word weblog:
"Weblog" should be in French "Bloc Notes"
Literally, "Bloc Notes" in english translates back to "Note Pad".
The "Journal Officiel" even thought about a short version, equivalent to "blog", it should be "bloc" which should translate back to "pad".
Picture, PointBlog
After Fortune Magazine, Liberation and Business Week, it is Le Monde's turn to have blogs on its cover page.
There is an interesting article about how brands try to penetrate the blogosphere and are not all very successful up to now. In France, we have a few examples of brands, Nokia, Siemens, Nike and Vichy who tried to either sample products to bloggers or launch theirs. Tell me if you want me to describe more what they have done in France. If you read French, here are the Le Monde articles below, they will remain free on-line for 7 days.
L'univers des blogs, ses habitants, ses rites, son langage
Les grandes marques tentent, avec plus ou moins de succès, de pénétrer le monde des blogueurs
Pierre Bellanger, président de la radio Skyrock
Dana VanDen Heuvel over at Blogs Marketing Beyond the Website "What's it mean? Simple - niche, hive mentality, lots of cross linking amongst the bloggers. Want to reach someone in this community. Advertise here." Via Robert.
Christophe Grebert, citizen blogger who was already arrested by the local police for his blog, is now sued by the city mayor because he comments how he does not like the way the city is managed every day on his blog.
The city has voted a budget of 29 000 € (!) to attack him. Christophe will be in front of judges on June 21st and had to borrow money from friends to organize his defense. If you would like to support him, Christophe just added a paypal tipjar donation button and already received close to $1000 of donations from fellow bloggers. I can't believe this story and I hope of course he will win.
update, thanks Cory for your help to spread the word.
Just launched, congrats, James It is written by top bloggers in Singapore, working together.
Blog Conference on May 28th in Sweden: Bloggforum Stockholm 2.0
Who said corporate blogging was still mostly done by tech companies ? Here is the toilet blog, envirolet, and it is not shit, it is a mix (without water) of product information and tentative community building. Via Corporateblogging.info
Hey Robert, great article in hebrew, I am not jealous, I had one too.
A discussion has started on my french blog and I was curious to get your ideas about a question a Le Monde journalist asked me two days ago: "is there a blog culture" ?
Here is a summary of what I answered as well as my french blog readers in comments:
Yes, there is a blog culture defined by:
-the willingness and pleasure to share his thoughts and experiences with others
-the growing importance of getting what others think about an idea or on opinion. As soon as a community exists around a blog, the author tends to ask more and more questions to them.
-bloggers help each other a lot, they are also capable of launching collaborative projects that would be very difficult or impossible to launch alone.
-getting information from a high number of sources every day becomes very important to most bloggers who end up reading tens of blog feeds (if not hundreds in some cases) every day.
-bloggers want to be in control on how they read the news, they don't want it served like a gospel, as most newspapers do
-bloggers tend to be global, read international sources and want to meet other people (one of my french blog reader quotes the "les blogs" event as a proof of that, so many people who travelled so far just to meet the bloggers they have been reading for so long)
-bloggers want to meet in real life, once they formed a community online, they organize dinners, parties, conferences, to meet
-there is a "common code": a vocabulary, a way to write posts, and behavior codes (quoting other sources when you use them, linking into them, etc)
-bloggers get so much used to providing feedback themselves that they are very frustrated when they read, listen or view MSM as they are not able to comment them
-the fact that bloggers invest so much time in their blogs, usually taken away from MSM, leisure time and sleep time, this irresistible will to share with others is a strong common point
-the culture of speed: the need to post or react instantaneously
-a need for recognition, bloggers want express themselves and get credit for it, resulting in many outside observers talking about bloggers as "huge ego-centrists with too much time in their hands"
Do you think the above describe a blog culture or is it just fake ? Do you see any other characteristics of a "blog culture" ?
Vive les blogs, thanks Robert Andrews for your interest in what's happening in France. Blogs are getting bigger every day here.
Anybody can upload as many videos of any length as they want on Google Video and even sell them. Larry Larsen thinks that the implications will be profound, especially on news as people who catch exclusive videos of events happening will probably be tempted to sell them on Google rather than give them to traditional media. Via Scoble.
Welcome to mass video blogging.
19 countries will be represented at our blog day in Paris. The full list of participants is here. Of course I regret more countries could not join (from Africa and Eastern Europe for example) but it is already very impressive for something just communicated on blogs. Thank you all for your help to spread the word.
Europe : 245
Belgium : 9
Luxembourg : 1
Denmark : 2
Finland : 1
France : 160
Germany : 20
Greece : 1
Irland : 2
Italy : 8
Spain : 4
Sweden : 3
Switzerland : 3
The Netherlands : 22
U.K.: 19
North America : 18
Canada : 2
USA : 16
Asia : 2
China : 1
Japan : 1
Middle-East : 2
Iran : 1
Israel: 1
Perseus estimates that there are 31.6 million weblogs in the world today and that there will be 53.4 million by year end. Via Yahoo Finance.
It is with great pleasure that I announce that the monthly Psychologies mag has launched its blogs on TypePad, it is #2 on the French monthly women press and its forums being very active already, we expect a number of very high quality blogs.
Thanks for having chosen TypePad !
There is also a long introduction about blogs in the april edition of Psychologies.
We now have 9 European partners who use TypePad as their blog platform, Neufblog, Turboblog, Le Monde, VNUNet, T-Online, 01 Net, Europe 2, Cadres OnLine and Psychologies.
Neville has good comments on everything we do in France around blogs, thanks Neville and see you on the 25h at the Senate !
I am also very happy that so many things happen in our country but as Ludo points out in the comments there are many great blogs initiatives starting all around Europe and that's very promising.
What a day ! Cadres OnLine, one of the main human resources portal in France, has just launched its jobs blogs on TypePad. Blogs are very active in this area for people looking for a job, companies looking for candidates and even human resource professionals.
We now have 8 european portals that launched blogs on TypePad, Neufblog, Turboblog, Le Monde, VNUNet, T-Online, 01 Net, Europe 2 and Cadres OnLine.
Europe 2 launches today its blog platform powered by TypePad. After having used for some time another solution, one of the leading french radio on the youth chose to relaunch it on TypePad, chosen for its functionalities and its reliability. A high volume is expected, relying on the scalability of the TypePad platform.
The Europe 2 fans as well as any internet user can open a free (with advertising) Europe 2 blog with a choice of 6 different templates. Users can also upgrade their blogs to any TypePad paid offer. Here is a blog example.
Thank you Europe 2 for having chosen TypePad to relaunch your blog offering.
There are now 7 blog portals running on TypePad in Europe, Neufblog, Turboblog, Le Monde, VNUNet, T-Online, 01 Net and Europe 2. Other portal launches will happen short term, joining Friendster in the US, NTT and Nifty in Japan.
Here are my friends and my... test blog.
Good job Yahoo, a good response to Microsoft Spaces. The VC says "if you don't have competition, there is no market". These players entering the blog market will make it grow. Updated (see comments) I finally found my url... Not very simple but probably beta.
There are 30 seats available at the blog conference in Paris. If you added your name to the wiki, *it is not enough to be fully registered* you need to confirm your registration with your payment on this page to make sure the seats are booked. Thank you for your understanding.
Just had the confirmation of Yossi Vardi, founder of ICQ, coming specially from Israel for our event, along with all the great speakers we have for one day, from all around the world. Now the difficult thing will be to stick to the schedule !
Thanks so much for your amazing response to the event, speakers and participants. It is going to be fun to see you all in Paris. I am happy to announce VNU has just accepted to sponsor the event, we'll have a party in the evening... somewhere in Paris.
NB. there is one seat still available, then I will have to open a waiting list again :-)
I just had the confirmation that Le Sénat (the French Senate) will host our one day conference on April 25th on blogs and social software ! You are all welcome to join, there are 200 seats in the room we have and we already have 85 people booked from around Europe so don't take too much time to decide... There is a 100 euros participation fee to cover all the costs, lunch and coffee breaks provided etc.
I am at Cebit today. Siemens has just launched its brand new java client for moblogging on new Siemens phones. It is so cool the TypePad logo shows up on the phone. You can take pictures and video and blog them directly on the blog of your choice from the client. Siemens has a special booth for moblogging featuring this new phone. A lot of people on the booth.
You are all invited to join our dream day about blogs and social software in Paris on April 25th. I thank all the speakers that accepted to join us from Japan, China, the U.S. and all around Europe for this unique day.
See you there and please help me spread the word so that we have an international audience too !
Alistair organises a blog conference in London on March 24th, we hope you can join us.
Panel:
Dominique Busso - VNU
Neil McIntosh - The Guardian
Charlie Schick - Nokia
John Dale - University of WarwickPaul Woodhouse - winner of the 2005 Business Blogging Award.
T-Online Germany, the #1 ISP in Europe, just opened its weblog service on TypePad. Thank you T-Online for choosing TypePad and congratulations for all your team work to launch the weblogs.
Many thanks as well to Six Apart members who worked hard to make this happen and especially Heiko.
The weblog project, open source, free, grassroots movie to promote the blogosphere.
Hans launches a new blog in Denmark and launches a company devoted to weblogs. It is amazing to see the blogging phenomenon touching all countries around the world.
