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   9/12/07

   jacks

   That my friend i have serious doubts about, have you seen the amount of football(soccer for the american people) parks in england. Jeeeees, there must be millions, and The Japanese, they have only been playing football for a short while. So please check your facts before you make such outlandish statements.
   
   Jack

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      9/12/07

      techfun

      hehe cute.
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   9/12/07

   Norski

   Without checking on anything but the post you linked to, I could believe it.
   
   The post stated that Japanese language posts (not blogs, posts) outnumber English language posts. And, Technorati is the source.
   
   I find this very plausible. The people of Japan have earned a reputation for being very excited about technology. I'm not surprised that quite a few Japanese have blogs, and post to them.
   
   There may be cultural differences, that encourage more posting for Japanese bloggers than for English-using bloggers.

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   9/12/07

   Norski

   Now, something really odd.
   
   The third paragraph of the post you linked to reads, "Home Internet access is still highest in the English speaking world, but native Japanese speakers edge out English speakers when it comes to the sheer number of posts. I think this is very encouraging since blogging is increasing in places like China and Iran."
   
   I was under the impression that written communication in China was conducted in Chinese, and that Persian was the language of Iran.
   
   What happened? Did those two countries start speaking Japanese?
   
   And, you wrote "I wrote about blogging as an way for people living under repressive regimes getting around censors to reach the outside world."
   
   Now, I'm really confused. Is the government of Japan a repressive regime?
   
   Help a newbie out! What's going on here?

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      9/12/07

      techfun

      I should have said Farsi is A term for Persian since both are acceptable:
      
      According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term 'Farsi' seems to have been first used in English in the mid-20th century, but has been condemned by some critics as an affectation.[9] According to Pejman Akbarzadeh, "... many Persians migrating to the West (particularly to the USA) after the 1979 revolution continued to use 'Farsi' to identify their language in English and the word became commonplace in English-speaking countries."[10] (from Wikipedia entry on Farsi/Persian Language en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farsi)
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      9/12/07

      Norski

      Thanks. I'll try to get that into my working vocabulary. Also, thanks for the link!
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   9/12/07

   techfun

   Sorry, there must be a formatting issue in your browser. Those should appear as separate paragraphs.
   
   Farsi is the technical term (in English) for the Persian language - see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farsi. The references to China and Iran are due to Chinese language posts being 8% now and Farsi being 1%. ( www.sifry.com/alerts/Slide0013.gif ). One percent of all the posts Technorati tracked is still a huge number for a language that is not very widely spoken outside of a small region of the world.
   
   By that third paragraph I had moved on past Japanese being the most common and onto the benefits of more bloggers worldwide in general, and in places like Iran and China in particular. Sorry for the confusion.

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      9/12/07

      Norski

      Right!
      
      Thanks for the clarification.
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      9/12/07

      Norski

      Farsi getting that high a piece of the blogging pie is impressive, under the circumstances. Thanks for the background.
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   9/12/07

   techfun

   Any time. I am considering putting together a world map with political hotspots on it with image map links off to blogs in that region.

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