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Whistling through the blogyard

From a (near sleep-inducing) piece at The Register:

No less than a million of the 2.7 million weblogs surveyed had been abandoned after a day, and 132,000 would-be webloggers gave up after a year. So like the Hula Hoop, the Pogo Stick or the skateboard, most teenagers will experience but a brushing pass with weblogging, and will continue unscathed to develop normal and healthy lives.

Perseus’ study doesn’t see a ‘community’ as much as a graveyard. The average weblog is only updated once every fourteen days, and Perseus concludes that “the majority of blogs started are dissolving into static, abandoned web pages.”

Note to fellow webloggers who just don’t know when to quit: we’re not blindly following a trend. We’re bucking it!