When I started blogging in French, I didn't get any feedback. But as I persisted, readers started hanging around. The more you blog in one language, and the more regularly you do it, the more you'll build up your readership (stating the obvious, sorry). And also, we have to remember that non-weblogging visiters are pretty much likely to lurk and not comment (we bloggers comment easily, because we're used to the whole "writing-on-the-web" thing). No comments doesn't mean you aren't read. What really started my French weblogging was when I hooked up with two other French-speaking webloggers (Karl and Pascale) and started discussing technical web design stuff in French in early 2001. Amongst other things, this prompted me to launch pompage.net, which publishes french translations of web design articles. Since then, the French-speaking web has taken off, and I like to think that I played a part in that, or at least in helping interested French-speakers to get together and reach a kind of critical mass. All this is to say that I believe that non-responsiveness shouldn't really be a reason to not blog in a certain language. There are Dutch speakers on the web (I'm taking your example, Ton, but of course this is valid for any other language spoken in regions where people have Internet access), and I'm sure they can find you. By blogging regularly in a minority language, one ends up playing the role of a magnet and attracting other potential authors in that language. Another thing I noticed, and that I'll mention here while I'm at it, is that visibility in an "other language" blogosphere tends to be much easier to achieve than in the anglo-saxon blogosphere -- simply because there are less people writing the stuff we are writing in that language, and already dozens of others doing so in English.