9rules Network First Year Anniversary
One year of building up a blogging community, 9 rules set the benchmark when it comes to the art of blogging. 9 rules’s mission is to bring out the best in blogging thru creative weblog template and writting skills. They only highlights the very best web content in the world, and present it to their audience. Topics range from tech to design and many more.
Anyone can join 9rules — you don’t have to be well-known, networked, rich, successful, or beautiful — but you do have to have a fiery passion for the medium. Here are the membership responsibilities:
- Great content, updated regularly. A nicely-designed site might draw readers in, but it’s the content that keeps them coming back.
- The desire to improve your site and your skills.
- A commitment to the 9rules community, whether that means helping fellow members or just giving advice to a new writer.
Gecko and Fly would love to join 9 rules but don’t think we’ve meet their minimum requirement for the time being. We would like to wish 9 rules happy birthday and many more years of blogging to come.
Primary language when it comes to blogging
Technorati has a break down of the major language according to the number of post online. Surprisingly English is the second most used language with Japanese language top the chart with 37%.
Mandarin (Chinese) language occupy the third spot, and climbing slowly up the chart and predicted to overtake english language within a few years time. This goest to show the importants of using services such as Altavista’s Babel Fish Translation and Google’s Translation.
In Summary:
- 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.
Source: Technorati
