At first glance, Google's new version of Blogger looks scaled down with minimal functionality. Just what I feared. I hope that it ends up better than this initial appearance.

Stuart Mudie discusses multilingual blogging. In doing so, he discusses ecuaderno, one of my favorite blogs. Most of my blog posts have been in English, although I regular link to content in other languages when they are relevant. Mudie suggests warning the reader if the link refers to content that is another language. I doubt that I will do that. Content that I link to will generally be in one of the following languages: English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese (Mandarin), Italian, Lithuanian, Thai, Valenciano, Catalan, Greek.

Joho the Blog recently carried this interesting thread on Spanish blogs. The debate is over the decidedly small number of Spanish blogs found and analyzed by researchers, Fernando Tricas Garcia and Juan Guervos. Certainly, there must be more than 2,000 Spanish blogs. On the other hand, I really haven't come across too many Polish blogs.

The British Parliament just held a seminar on blogging for its members. Here's the complete E-Government series in the London Guardian.

Dave Winer: "We will all live to see the day a weblogger becomes president."