Japan Leads the World in Mobile Blogging

I watched Lost In Translation and didn't get it. The title was helpful in explaining the movie... Bill Murray was great... Sophie Coppola did a fine job directing, but I don't get Japanese culture. I'm intrigued by it... I just don't get it. Maybe that's because I'm not Japanese. Anyway, according to the Technorati 2007 “State of the Blogsphere” report, Japanese is the #1 blogging language in the world, accounting for 37% of all blog posts, narrowly edging out English at 36%." The article specifically focuses on the method of blogging by the Japanese... mobile phones.

According to a recent survey, the mobile phone was found to be the blogging device of choice, being used by over two-thirds of bloggers in Japan. In fact, over a third of the sample stated that they only blog by mobile phone, while another 20% used both mobile phone and PC, while favoring the phone. The levels for favoring using a PC for blogging were lower.

This naturally leads to the question, what exactly is being written by these mobile bloggers? Well according to the aforementioned survey, nearly 70% of content involves diary entries/columns, followed by movies/television/music at 31%.