27.2 million blogs up to date, according to Technorati's David Sifry, with a doubling rate almost every other 6 months. I guess it's a worldwide trend, though I could bet that most of the long tail is composed of personal and less active blogs.

It is the same in Romania for instance whereas having a blog has become kinda fashionable nowadays. Also it is notably that we have some execs from the local internet biz becoming more visible on the blogging arena in the past weeks or so. But still, I think the blogging buzz in the local business circles is weak to zero though my bet is that the Romanian internet business landscape will see more qualitative, professional and vertical blogs in the next twelve months. We're slow at innovating and/or being the grassrooters but very fast followers methinks. :)

update: oh, yeah, and a good chunk of the long tail is spam, thanks Alex.