For those of you who can read French and for those of you who can make intelligent guesses here and here are interesting links on blogger statistics sent in by a regular reader.

I suppose a few years ago the very concept of blogging would have been considered futuristic. One of Macmillan's authors, Ray Hammond, produces a monthly futurology newsletter which is well worth studying. Ray must be wrong quite a lot of the time but I bet he's right too - as usual picking the winner is the tough thing.

I don't get too carried away by technopredictions but I do reckon that some people in the book trade could do with a little bit more open-mindedness when it comes to thinking about the future of their own businesses - judging by some of the comments received on this blog over the last few days.