Blogging briefly from the second gathering of Danish bloggers: Blogforum 2.0. It is the ever prolific Thomas Madsen-Mygdal who initiated it, and now we are around 60+ Danish bloggers (mainly from the Copenhagen area) gathered at Island Brygge's Kulturhus, spending an entire day discussing...blogs. Right now, we are group of people discussing how to make a survey of Danish blog-readers. And it's all in the wiki.

Fyi, Stefan of Overskrift.dk estimates that there is now around 15.000 Danish blogs (update: an interesting discussion about this number is evolving over at Hovedet på Bloggen. Perhaps the number is much higher!). After a long period of slow, but steady growth, the number of blogs have really exploded in 2006, a likely reason (cf Stefan and Kim Elmose) is that a lot of the media corporations have started to offer their readers blog services (f.i. Urbanblogs, Ekstrabladet's blogs, Xtra-blogs etc). A likely reason why we still DONT have a massive amount of blogs in Denmark Kim suggests, is that Denmark is such a small country, that you can easily get through to the ("old") media and make your voice heard, if you want to. That could definitely be part of the reason. Perhaps it is also a cultural thing - in my experience, Scandinavians prefer to keep rather quiet in public, and share intimate thoughts with only a select few. "Standing up" and speaking with confidence in public is not something we are trained to do, in comparison with for instance US citizens. But that's just pure guesswork.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 11:27