Nimble, agile, (insert cliche here)... ;-)
More seriously, escolar is clearly a lot bigger than us, but in terms of comments per day, we're quite up there.
That's a characteristic of scoop sites, of course, but it shows an engaged community.
My general feeling is that what these figures show, more than anything is smallness that is European blogging in general.
I'd love it if you or anyone could name some big beasts from other languages (like escolar) to throw into the mix to give us some more data on that.
As an addendum, I looked up a couple more "well known" UK bloggers on sitemeter:
Site Visits this week ---- ---------------- Tim Worstall 13,862 Recess Monkey ?10,000? (estimate) Guido Fawkes ?40,000? (estimate)
Site Visits this week ---- ----------------
Tim Worstall 13,862 Recess Monkey ?10,000? (estimate) Guido Fawkes ?40,000? (estimate)
Unfortunately, there's next to no info about Guido Fawkes blog that can be interpolated to a sitemeter reading. Guido is probably the largest UK political blog outside of the big media sites.
So I looked at this and guessed:
This is a potentially interesting take on UK blog reading from the Times:
http://timesnews.typepad.com/news/2006/08/britains_weblog.html
This is an interesting Lib Dem blog, apparently they are having a competition for Lib Dem blogs.
I have to agree with poemless on a parallel thread that we shouldn't underestimate the power of scoop. I am beginning to believe that the reason the UK (and Spain) blogospheres is so poor in the opinion of many here (just my impression of the Spanish one, I'm sure I'll get flamed for it ;-) s the absence of a dedicated scoop site. The I-post-you-comment model of most blogs is generally a very poor debating environment. For instance, IMHO the addition of a comment section did nothing to improve Juan Cole's blog: it was a necessity brought about by the incresing volume of e-mail he was getting. "Celebrity" (e.g. Wallstrom) blogs are even worse in the quality of their comment sections. Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman
