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Statistics

- Three blogs are created every two seconds
- Japanese is the dominant blog language
- Chinese remained in third place this year but Italian overtook Spanish to become the fourth most popular blogging language

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The Japanese do it all the time. The British and the Americans do it quite a lot. The Chinese do it occasionally, but they are still way ahead of the French, and the Russians, who barely do it at all.
Milestones

April 1997
Dave Winer helps kick off new kind of website, and the name weblog is coined in December
August 1999
Blogger.com, a website which helps popularise the form, is launched        More>>


In Depth
Why Blog?
Blogs can give even non-writers a boost. And if your Internet presence is less than interesting? Blogs can help you there, too.
Enterprise Blogsphere
Now public relations departments are using blogs to promote their companies' products.

On Air

• Training for Bloggers
Bloggers now have a training course of their own.

• China's Blog Times
Thousands of celebrities and experts are blogging.

• To Blog or Not?
We'll greet each other with the words "Have you blogged today?"


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