Hitwise, a web traffic monitoring company reported that visits to blogs in the UK currently account for almost 1 in 200 visits to all websites, up 130% on the previous year.The UK market is dominated by MSN Spaces and LiveJournal, although myspace is growing fast - up 500% since it debuted in the Hitwise ranks in September 2004.

Although traffic to blogs from the UK is increasing I still haven’t come across anyone in my own circle of contacts who blogs and I have a sneaky suspicion that the increase is coming from people visiting blogs without creating their own blogs. I think blogging is still seen as geeky or no-one wants to admit that they are a ‘blogger’.