Blogging often consists of short passages, it goes with the format. Blogs are also often written in an easy, everyday language. These two things makes them perfect for practising another language.
I think that's why I enjoy reading blogs in German so much!
For me, it's hard work reading a book in German. If I want to understand everything, which I usually want, I must have a dictionary nearby. This excludes reading on the way to work or in other situations when you just have a couple of minutes over. Blog entries, being as short as they are, doesn't take that much of an effort.
Lately I've also started reading blogs in Norweigan. Swedish and Norweigan are quite similar, but it isn't the same and I always used to fetch a deep sigh when we were forced to read books in Norweigan at the university (which didn't happen very often I must admit but anyhow). Short blog entries in Norweigan on the other hand, doesn't scare me off and who knows, I might even end up learning some Norweigan :-)
