10.000 blogs have now been created on Norway’s largest news website VG Nett since the service launched last October, a milestone the site rightly celebrates. As I am quoted as saying in the story, there’s every reason to believe that many find VG attractive as blog host because traffic will spill over from the news website to blogs. Not the only reason for choosing VG as host, but probably important. The site also features highlights from blogs quite prominently on the main news page.

One of my hopes for the future of VG’s blog coverage is that they will also hunt for good blog posts among bloggers outside VG’s own service. That way they will definitely increase their credibility among non-VG bloggers, and also their relevance as a main aggregator of the wider Norwegian blog community.

Another peculiarity of VG’s blog service is that the bloggers there relate very much to each other, and not so much to bloggers outside VG. Hence, there’s a strong, independent community at VG Blogg. Nothing wrong with that, but again I hope that “VG’s” bloggers in the future will connect to the wider networks as well.