100 million in 600 days!!

There are blogs that are popular, with thousands of hits every day; there are plenty more that are not so hot, lucky to get 10 page views a week. Then there is Xu Jinglei's blog, which can pull in visitors at a rate of more than 100 every second and each entry attracts up to a thousand comments. The Chinese actor-director has been declared the world's most widely read blogger, with more than 100m page views in less than two years.

Xu Jinglei recorded her 100-millionth hit last week, according to the Beijing News, and did so without writing about sex or kiss and tell stories, but focusing on her work and day-to-day life. Xu Jinglei, 33, started posting in October 2005 on sina.com.cn. The prolific blogger only took 112 days to break a domestic record with over 10 million visits. Last year, as the popularity of her site began to mushroom, she published a book of blogged articles.

In mid-2006, her blog reported the most incoming links of any on the Internet, according to leading blog search engine, Technorati. Following her success on the Internet, the actress has tapped into a variety of off-screen fields, including opening an online magazine, and launching a handwritten Chinese computer font. Xu's website had had 2m hits since July 12 the day she broke the 100m mark. Can’t our Indian actors or actress break this record? … Sure this can be done easily here I think.