40% year end jump in French blogging.

FRANCE: Jean-Luc Raymond counted the number of blogs on free French language hosts. 94,562 on December 15, 2003; 134,104 on January 15, 2004. Some of the larger hosts reporting:

1. Skyblog - 107,400 (Any suggestions why Skyblog adoption has been so large?)
2. Skynet Blogs - 9,071
3. U-blog - 7,356
4. My Blogue - 4,095
5. Secret Newspaper - 3,533

Jean-Luc writes it is unclear if these are active blogs. Regardless, the number of reported blogs has grown 5 times in 10 months, apparently compounding via word of mouth. This reinforces Loïc Meur's report of growth. Has Francoblogging found its audience?