Every day Ed picks a topic, does a web search and picks the bones out of various international blogs. The varied viewpoints and opinions coupled with Ed's humor should make you think, grimace and grin.

I was going to do a search for blog articles that dealt with minority sports, and cleverly call it the Minority Sports Report. But I was hijacked at the first hurdle by this article on Blogging is not a minority sport.

The writer of Online Media Cultist, Eric Berlin, responds to an article by Vic Keegan, a journalist with the UK Guardian. Eric argues against the idea that blogging is waning in popularity, and covers a few points of interest in the process, namely: the percentage of English language blogs as a percent of all blogs world-wide is diminishing fast; more people are reading and not blogging themselves; and there is very little money to be made out of most blogs in their traditional format.

In the original Keegan article, (basically ripping into Technorati!) there were several other thought-provoking assertions made, and it too makes for interesting reading.

For bloggers with drive, I think you will find the whole episode quite encouraging. And if you are looking for a niche, (and a way to harvest new ways of thinking), blog about blogs not written in English.

I already mentioned Pambazuka, a weekly social forum on injustice in Africa



One of The Pisstakers' perennial sources of referrals is Overheard in Bucharest



And Clapping Trees points you to the top blogs in Asia

How to read a blog in a foreign language?

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