Blogosphere

March 13, 2007 - 8:05 AM by Stephanie

If you’re a blogger and you blog a war, does it affect readership? Ask anyone whose hit count went up by 800% during last summer’s Israel-Lebanon War and you’ll have your answer.

Haaretz looks at blogging – particularly in English – in this posting which includes interviews with some of the English lingo bloggers in Israel we’ve come to know and love. Like Hanan and Alex and Yael and Aussie Dave and Brian and Lisa and so on and so forth.

People who write Israeli blogs in English are very aware that they are writing for people abroad,” says Hanan Cohen, the creator of Webster, a site that aggregates English-language Israeli blog feeds. “Israeli blogospheres in Hebrew and English are totally different worlds. The blogs in English are mostly old and new immigrants who are writing from a perspective of hasbara [pro-Israel public relations], whereas Hebrew blogs are written for people locally. Many bloggers in English focus on explaining their political perspective to the people they left behind.”

Kudos Kudos my blogger brothers

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