Blog culture has really taken off in France – according to this Wired News piece. Most intriguing is the revelation that as soon as the newspaper Le Monde started allowing readers to publish their own pieces, these immediately became the most linked pages.

Le Monde, France’s biggest newspaper, is also a weblog host, letting thousands of readers write journals alongside those of staff reporters and columnists. Just two days after the invitation to “become your own editor” in December, readers-turned-writers were leapfrogging the pros in a rundown of the online paper’s most-read pages.