The concluding summary to Dave Sifry's State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 Part 2: On Language and Tagging —
- The blogosphere is multilingual, and deeply international.
- English, while being the language of the majority of early bloggers, has fallen to less than a third of all blog posts in April 2006.
- Japanese and Chinese language blogging has grown significantly.
- Chinese language blogging, while continuing to grow on an absolute basis, has begun to decline as an overall percentage of the posts that Technorati tracks over the last 6 months.
- Japanese, Chinese, English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and German are the languages with the greatest number of posts tracked by Technorati.
- The Korean language is underrepresented in this analysis.
- Language breakdown does not necessarily imply a particular country or regional breakdown.
- Technorati now tracks more than 100 Million author-created tags and categories on blog posts.
- The rel-tag microformat has been adopted by a number of the large tool makers, making it easy for people to tag their posts. About 47% of all blog posts have non-default tags or categories associated with them.
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