August 08, 2005

Dutchies in the blogospere

The summer has hit media-land and in the absence of proper news on the weekend, there were a couple of articles on blogging in Dutch newspapers.

The Volkskrant-article was pretty interesting (registration necessary), although it refers a lot to Technorati-stats (consistently misspelled... not very impressive for a paper which is supposedly 'quality') so I doubt it is new to the rest of the blogosphere.
Apparently there are somewhere between 250.000 and 750.000 bloggers in the Netherlands. Out of 14.2 million worldwide. It also seems that almost half of new bloggers quit within three months. I seem to be doing relatively well then. Yay.

Another daily Trouw had a similar article on the weekend - although this article mentions 60.000 Dutch bloggers. Quite a difference! Haven't read the rest of the piece yet but it seems fairly interesting.

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