I knew italians were talkative.. but c'mon...

David Sifry has made an art out of publishing every trimester his now famous "State of the Blogosphere", and he just published yesterday the latest one (somewhat more ambitious it is called now the "State of the Live Web".

That is to me one of the top 2 nice places to just swim in graphic analysis of data (together with Google's Zeitgest, of course), but this time I got somewhat shocked by one of those statistics. have a look.

Now people are posting more in italian language that in spanish. how can that be?

I know people of italian origin in general are quite talkative, to the point of being to do it without their mouth [hint: look at their hands]... but how can ~60 somewhat million italian speaking people express themselves blogging more than ~300M+ million spanish-speaking people... even taking into account per-capita-GDP differences, i just don't get it. any ideas?