Up among the A-list top ten of international independent bloggers, there is a new name. A name that, if you are not from Italy, you may have never heard before: Beppe Grillo. Presently at position ten on the Technorati Top 100, Beppe Grillo’s blog is fast moving up the ranks and, at the speed it is going, will be soon among the very top five world blogs in terms of number of links (17,447) and Web sites and blogs (6,012) linking to it. Google itself has over three million links to it.

Not only.

Beppe Grillo, who blogs nearly every day on topics that range from political commentary to media criticism and to underground story coverage, outnumbers even Slashdot when it comes to the level of participation and engagement shown by his audience, as each post is enriched by hundreds if not thousands of comments per day. Just to give you an idea, this last Sunday, February 5th, his post entitled “Vergogne d’Italia” has seen already over 2000 comments being posted to it. Unbelievable.

And while the blog is originally written in Italian, an English version is also available. Unfortunately, the English translated version has none of the heat and passion that Italian readers have injected into the Italian version of the blog, but it nonetheless offers a unique way for international readers to get a glimpse of how effective a radical and ousted television comic can be when given a blog to make his voice heard.

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Beppe Grillo Launches Citizen Primaries: Italian Blogger Takes On Participatory Grassroots Politics Via His Own Blog

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