Nate V. pointed me to a great article in the Washington Post on blogging culture in Japan and how it's different than the U.S.

Japan's Bloggers: Humble Giants of the Web - washingtonpost.com

"Cyberspace and real space are merging in Japan, Ito said. Young people blogging on cellphones are often "co-present" with five to 10 of their peers, as they move through cities like electronically tethered schools of fish.

Ito predicts that in the United States, as mobile phones and wireless networks improve, blogging will, in effect, become more Japanese."