Lenguas en la blogosfera

David Sifry acaba de publicar su State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 Part 2: On Language and Tagging. Es muy interesante seguir sus observaciones a partir del crecimiento de la blogosfera en la red a través de lo que se refleja en Technorati. Entre estas observaciones (matizables, desde luego, según los contextos en que aparezcan), quizá destaca la que figura en la imagen:

English isn't the biggest language of the blogosphere. In fact, English isn't even the primary language of one third of all posts that Technorati tracks anymore. Another interesting finding is that the Chinese blogosphere, which grew significantly in 2004 and 2005 (launches of MSN Spaces in Chinese, Bokee.com saw a peak of 25% of all posts in Chinese in November 2005) seems to be slowing down somewhat this year.

El sumario final del trabajo de David Sifry, entre otras cosas, dice que:

• 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.

Es también recomendable leer State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth.