NAFIS, Shabbir Husain

As I am currently in HKSAR, I am invariably interested in IT developments and trends of this region.

Source China Web 2.0 review has details from the Baidu’s second report:

According to the report, as of November 3rd, 2006:

1. There are 19.87 million Chinese bloggers worldwide.
2. 52.3 million Chinese blogs.
3. Every blogger has 2.6 blogs.
4. Number of bloggers increased by 24%.
5. The number of blogs increased by 41%.
6. Almost half of bloggers (48.5%) update their blogs in day time or working hour (from 10 am to 6 pm).
7. Currently there are 1460 blogging service providers in China.
8. It (number of blogging service providers) is an increase of 55% year over year.
9. The top 10 service providers are:
   • QQ-zone,
   • Sina Blog,
   • MSN Live Spaces,
   • Sohu Blogs,
   • Baidu Space,
   • Netease Blog,
   • 51.com,
   • Bokee,
   • Blogbus and
   • Hexun Blog.

Additionally, to get a flavour of the global trends, as per Technorati, the number of global blogs are doubling every 7 months.