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FT.com has an article on influential blogs, looking at surveys of American, Italian, French, German and UK blogging and some of the differences are interesting and worth noting.
While technology, business and politics dominate the overall rankings, personal diary-style blogs are far more popular in Europe, accounting for 43 per cent of the top blogs in [...]






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