Blogs! A few weeks ago we announced the competition in this txoko. ARGIA collaborates in the initiative organized by Azkue Fundazioa and wants to reward the best blogs written in Basque in the blogging community, in the fields of culture, society and politics, leisure and science and technology. On the net, we can also live in Euskera, and this is the sign.
In order not to be a competition, Azkue Fundazioa has also launched a survey. He wants to know the trends of the blog community in Basque, how they manage their pages, what topics they write, why, what supports they work on, how often they post emails, etc. And these trends today are intended to take advantage of to put in place strategies, developments and new projects of the future. To do this, however, it is convenient that the largest number of bloggers fill out the survey, to get a broad view of reality and to make the information really useful. Although the Basque blog community is not very large, it brings together users of very different trends, and it is necessary to know the reality of everyone in order to make a real analysis.

And knowing that this survey has been launched, I have been led by a question. If ARGIA has its own blog community, have we ever analyzed the data? What do we know about this community?
In a race and with barely enough time to run tests, we've taken some general data. Today there are 109 people who have a blog at ARGIA. Some ARGIA journalists, other collaborators, have wanted to open a blog and have chosen ARGIA as a platform; and there are also groups or blogs open for specific topics. The pages have been opening from 2006 to today, when it reached its highest strength in 2013, with 39 blogs. More than 5 posts a day were published that year, and that's been the strongest time. Currently, an average of 2.5 posts are published.
Like these movements and trends, ARGIA will continue to look at many others, as it is also the community in which we all participate.