When the Thrill of Blogging Is Gone ... -- “There’s a joke within the blogging community that most blogs have an audience of one.”
From The New York Times:
According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled.
Richard Jalichandra, chief executive of Technorati, said that at any given time there are 7 million to 10 million active blogs on the Internet, but “it’s probably between 50,000 and 100,000 blogs that are generating most of the page views.” He added, “There’s a joke within the blogging community that most blogs have an audience of one.”
According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled.
Richard Jalichandra, chief executive of Technorati, said that at any given time there are 7 million to 10 million active blogs on the Internet, but “it’s probably between 50,000 and 100,000 blogs that are generating most of the page views.” He added, “There’s a joke within the blogging community that most blogs have an audience of one.”
posted by Sid Cottingham | 7:11 AM
2 Comments:
Well, I read your blog.
You're in my folder "Other News, Other Blogs", in sub-folder "Other News and Politics Blogs", in sub-sub-folder "Subset." Which I open about every two weeks or so.
During election seasons, Cracker Squire gets bumped into an Election set of blogs which I read daily.
I live in Greater Atlanta, and I find your outside-Atlanta-but-not-as-a-result-automatically-anti-Atlanta perspective very refreshing and useful as I attempt to grok Georgia politics.
Please keep posting!
Thanks Hexagonal:
I came close to entitling this post: Blogs Falling in an Empty Forest -- “There’s a joke within the blogging community that most blogs have an audience of one.”
I will continue indeed.
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