This blog is officially dead since October 2009. And yet, there are still people visiting my site every day. This is what they’re interested in: … read on!

Since May, 26th, we have a new program in German Television: The “heute show” on the ZDF. A kind of Late-night-show in which current happenings in national television are parodied or commented in a funny way. Sounds familiar to you? In English “heute show” means “Today Show”. The name seems to be close to “Daily Show” but it isn’t: On the ZDF all news-related programs are labeled with the “heute”-brand (“heute journal”, “heute nacht”, etc… also, the “heute show” isn’t broadcasted daily, but monthly). Yet the format itself seems to be!

Unfortunately the copy wasn’t really successful: They forgot to copy the “Daily Show“‘s quality! It is so totally unfunny and quite dumb! Instead of intelligent, creative, ironic remarks on the absurdity in politics and the media (especially FOX News) they have lame, pseudo-funny lines… come hell or high water. I know that it’s hard to reach the level of Jon Stewart, but this host can’t stand a comparison to him. Yet, I know that it’s also more difficult to create a kind of “Daily Show” in Germany than it is in the USA and the Nazis plays a role indirectly:

… read on!

After having written about the German blogosphere in general, this post is a ranking of the Ten most relevant German blogs. There are several different ways to compile such a list: There are the German Blogcharts for example which are based on Technorati numbers, or the ranking of the most leading and quoted websites by a German Memetracker or the top Feedburner-subscribed blogs… But I found a website on which all these numbers are put together and the resulting ranking mirrors the German Blogosphere very well. So, here I’ll explain Germany’s Top Ten Blogs. Let’s begin at the back… after the jump: … read on!

I noticed, as I wrote yesterday’s post, that I haven’t explained Germany’s blogosphere, yet. And since half of my visitors are non-Germans I think I have to catch up on this. (And my “The Writing Camp”-post isn’t finished yet…)

The German Blogosphere is of course not as huge as the English/American Blogosphere, simply because the audience is way smaller (there are not as many German-speakers in the world as English-speakers). But apart from this, blogs are not very established in Germany. While in the USA everybody knows about HuffPo and Gawker and the Media also refers to their stories, in Germany Blogs are rather hushed up by Journalists and bloggers are not taken seriously. That’s why many people (and I’m talking about young, internet-active people!) don’t even know what exactly a blog is at all or they believe it’s an (uninteresting) personal internet-diary in which you write about yourself and what you’re doing… So, there’s much potential readership but only little actual readership.

Yet, there’s another “problem” with German Blogs: they aren’t … read on!