In Europe, the former TechCrunch editor Sam Sethi has launched its German and Italian version of the Blognation sites. The sites are still in pre-beta mode, launched immediately following the released of the UK version of Blognation. Clearly, Blognation has an ambitious plan, it will initially focus on the Europe technology markets but plans to expand into Asian countries, as Sam Sethi mentioned in his blog, with the help of 16 editors. An article that I found on the Web even stated that this new blogging startup has raised fund in its start-up phase. However, the number of the blogs that devoted to the technology news or to make money from the advertisements became so large and dynamic, it always need some time for a new blog to gain readers in the blogosphere.

Nevertheless, I rather enjoyed reading the blogs that were created by a blogger instead of a team that run a particular blog, because I feel that kind of blogs are characterized with a distinct voice, personality and design, albeit that some of those blogs sometimes are opinionated, cyclical, and jaundiced. In other words, I like those bloggers that run their blogs themselves, and hence I will buy into their personal blogging journeys.

Update: Blognation has been shut down by Sam Sethi in December 2007.