The growth of Blogging

The BBC website has run a story on the rise of the weblog, or blog for short, and states that a new blog is created every second. (Link to the story in the title of this entry.)

With all these blogs out there, does anyone have any time to read them or is everyone busy writing their own?

Is there anyone out there?...... (echo, echo, echo!)

I must admit that other than writing this blog whenever I have something to say / nothing to say / time to kill, there's only one other blog out there that I read, and that's the blog of Stuart Hughes, the BBC producer who lost the lower half of a leg after being blown up by a landmine in Iraq. (http://www.stuhughes.co.uk) I was introduced to Stuart's work through a lovely chap named Roger Hall, who used to do webcasts of London Knights games, and who knows Stuart through his coverage of ice hockey. Stuart's a lot more political than I am (which isn't saying much, I'm the epitome of voter apathy) and his blog covers a whole range of issues but focusses more often than not on his work to raise awareness of disability issues and anti-landmine campaigns.

So, this raises the question with me: do the readers of The Phoenix Back-Room Blog have their own blogs, or read other blogs? Now's your chance for a nice plug or two, readers!