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| Monday, May 1, 2006 |
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How to be your own star 
This time literally.
Thoughs in (or on) passing
English as a second language. Or maybe a third.
| | Anyway, if this were a podcast, I'd play one or both of those while pointing to David Sifry's latest State of the Blogosphere post, where he notes that Japanese has become the top blogging language (at least among those syndicated sources indexed by Technorati): |
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| | There are three very important caveats in the data sets that I'm going to describe below. The first is that we are using automated language analysis software (based on languid), and it may have bugs, thus over or undercounting a particular language or group of languages. We're going to be continually improving the capabilities of this software, but we are pretty confident in its ability to work reliably, especially over the large data sets that Technorati tracks (over 35 million blogs at this time, and over 1.2 million posts each day). Second, we believe that we are grossly undercounting the Korean blogosphere, mostly due to the fact that the largest Korean blog and hompy services (like Cyworld or Planet Weblog) are not being indexed by Technorati at this time. In addition, we believe that we're somewhat undercounting the French blogosphere, in particular because our indexing of skyblog is poor. We'd love to rectify this - if anyone at these (or other) blogging services is interested in being indexed, please drop me a line. Last, Japanese bloggers appear to write shorter posts more often. This could be a result of blogging from mobile phones, and may be skewing the results, given that we are tracking the total number of posts in this analysis. |
| | Still, think of all those gatekeepers writing in languages you don't know. |
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