September 09, 2005
OSW: Loic Le Meur - The European Perspective
Represents Six Apart in Europe. Six Apart provide Typepad, Movable Type (the software which runs this blog) and LiveJournal.
In France, blogging is becoming big news - front page of Le Monde; three radio stations doing weekly or daily shows on blogs; one TV station doing a short, primetime slot on blogging. This has been happening for over a year now.
Some stats. In May 2005 there were 30 million blogs, 50 million expected by the end of the year. Number of blogs doubles in size every six months. And blogs influence is growing, some blogs get more links than mainstream media websites (nice graphic from somewhere on Technorati).
Talked a bit about podcasting too.
Lots of buzz in France, even a blogging award competition.
Showed some video blogging software Six Apart are now providing.
Showed his wiki page about the European blogosphere which gives information about how many blogs there are in Europe, and such.
And a quick plug for this years Les Blogs conference - Les Blogs 2.0, Dec 5th and 6th in Paris.
His blog is at www.loiclemeur.com.
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