Phil Wolff's blog have many interesting posts about blog related stats.  Did you know there are 100,000 polish blogs of which 62% are by women?  How about those 12,000 Iranian blogs? 

Best find on my first visit today was the reference to great post by Maciej Ceglowski on measuring how high the language barriers are in BlogLand backed up with numbers provided by his crawlers.  Posts like that deserves wider distribution that what he got.  Pass it on.  To entice you, here is the lure:

"links tend not to cross language boundaries. If you look at all the outgoing links from English language blogs, only about 1.75% point to a non-English weblog. In the reverse direction, however, the figure is much higher. A full 7% of links from non-English-language weblogs point to an English site." – Maciej Ceglowski