Internet-Blogsworld language rankings...

I'm reprisng two relevant items I fikled in my Archives; there is a subtle message, maybe not subtle, eye-opening!, for Malaysians. Ordinary Malaysians, leave out Da Ministers -- they live in a world of their own. To know why Desi is ranting thus, read the precedent, which means the PREVIOUS, entry, (See,can Eye-to-I with Desi? flee Engrish tuition I talked about!) okay it's titled: See the speck in thy neighbour's eye...
Now, brokeback to Archives, its imporatynace when the brain vells run a li'l dry, like Petronas oilfields~~~~~~~

Wednesday, May 10, 2006
The language of blogs

What is the main language in which blogs are written? Did you guess English? Well, sorry, wrong!

"Technorati's David Sifry has produced some interesting data on the language of the blogosphere, indicating that Japanese, not English, is actually the most popular language for blogs. 37 per cent of blogs are in Japanese, followed by English (31 per cent) and Chinese (15 per cent)."

The Telegraph's Shane Richmond adds:

"But it isn’t just the blogosphere we should worry about – the Internet at large is being divided along language lines. The latest figures show that there are around 300 million English-speaking internet users compared with just over 100 million who speak Chinese. However, Internet usage in China is growing at a terrific rate and it won’t be long before the Chinese Internet is bigger than its English-language counterpart."(The emphasis, in BOLD like this, is Desiderata's, not ABC!)

So well, here we have another disparity - not only geographic but also by language.

(By Asia Business Consulting)
posted by JM @ 11:19 AM

Global Internet Usage

An impressively high number of youth aged 15 and above around the globe accessed the Internet in March 2006 = 694 million.

This is slightly above 10% of total global population - still a long way to go, but hey, public access to the Internet is not that long available. So let's celebrate those numbers as advancement and progress.

But naturally, there are huge disparities in the usage:

"China, Japan, India and Korea - which represent nearly 25 per cent of the total worldwide online population (168.1 million users). These four countries combined represent a larger user base than the US, which had over 152 million users in March."

Just imagine what benefits will happen if the usage spreads?

(By Asia Business Consulting)

My 3sen's worth, also retrieved from The Archioves!:)

"The growing power of the Internet, hence also Blogosworld, and concurrent emergence of China as the next Superpower to rival the USA. It's just a matter of a decade before the Europeans need to master Mandarin in order to tap the Chinese market, or they prish and fade away ... maybe then my country will wakeup from its 15th cventury dreams of olde worlde Malacca singing the praises of P Ramlee and debating whether to allow the screening of a Communist titled musical documentary by Amir Muhammad!"

ylchong | Homepage | 05.10.06 - 8:18 am | #

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