gerade eben per Email:

Das Web ist schliesslich kein Ponyhof.

danke. erinnert mich stark an fukami, der mit

Das Web ist kein Kindergeburtstag!

ja bereits in Dresden für Amüsement sorgte.

Ja was ist es denn nun, das Web?

This is exactly the reason why I absolutely love statistics. They are like life, they are just what you want them to be. Why?

Look at the figures: Austria has reportedly 20.000 weblogs. How came that figure? Did anyone count them? Nope. Is there a halfway safe method of estimating them? Nope. But how did they get the numbers?

Well, a funny french guy set up a wiki where everybody can write down nice things, because he had to talk about the European Blogosphere at a conference (however he ended up talking about French Bloggers anyway).

Now it is the merit of the Internet, that gifted you with a number. The one number to tell you how wonderful everything is.

Statistics. You gotta love them. And btw: yes Austria contributes only a tiny bit to the overall figure, but just take this as example how all the other figures might have been estimated...