19 April, 2005 AMSTERDAM - If you havent heard about blogging then youve most likely been living on Mars for the last 18 months.
With over 5 million sites around devoted to it, blogging has become the biggest online craze of the last couple of decades
, with some blogs having become so popular now that their authors have developed cult followings. In fact these days it seems every body has a blog, from Barbara Streisand to Moby.
But blogs are also proving to be a vital form of communication for expatriates living abroad and looking to stay in touch with friends and family back home. It turns out that expat blogs are proving to be a compelling read, not only for family and friends, but for just about anyone in the cyber world looking to take a peek into someone elses overseas life.
Examples of popular expat blogs incorporate www.Yankeefog.com revealing the ups and downs of an American expat living in London and www.Xpat.org which charts the views, lives and opinions of several expatriates living all over the world.
Recently Expatica (www.expatica.com), the leading news & data
source for expats in Europe, introduced its own blog section to allow expats the chance to share their own stories. Company representative Mark Batty says blogs are a great way to share your new life abroad with pals back home and they sure beat writing mass emails.
Regular Expatica readers will now be able to follow the humorous daily activities of Petite Anglaise, a thirty-something English woman living and working in Paris, on www.expatica.com/france and Blonde Librarian, who packed up her three American cats and followed her heart to Germany, on www.expatica.com/germany.
Batty says A lot of all the people ask us for an inside look at life abroad, an individual point of view you cant get from a guide. We are
adding bloggers for each of our country sites in the coming weeks and so far the response has been terrific.
It looks as though blogs are here to stay. If you thought the b-word was just one of those passing cyber fads, it measure
to rethink the whole thing and get blogging.
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