Poland 100,000 communication and community blogs.

POLAND: Sociologist Marysia Cywiñska-Milonas cited Gierszewski's study of Polish the blogosphere:

• 100,000 polish blogs
• 62% of blogs are written by women
• 75% are 20 years old or younger
• 90% blog from home
• most blogging is anonymous, and personal/social content prevails

12,000 Iranian blogs.

IRAN: Hossein Derakhshan is presenting Weblogs, an Iranian Perspective at Blogtalk. Highlights:

• Lack of blogrolls (for social reasons as much as technical)
• 12,000 Persian weblogs
• 76% male
• 2-3 million Iranians in diaspora, blogging plays a role connecting with each other and with the people living in-country
• Average number of posts and comments: 48, 126
• top 5 categories (except sex, which dominates 6 of the top 10 Persian blogs)
  • 27% general
  • 16% personal
  • 9% social/life
  • 9% literature
  • 7% politics