Where Are The Bloggers?
June 9th, 2009 by ComputerBob
Several years ago, when many of us were first learning what the word “blog” meant, some people predicted that blogging was just a fad, and it would die out before too long.
If it was just a fad, it was a very significant one.
According to one company that tracks such things, at one time, it was tracking 133 million blogs.
I started this Journal more than 5 1/2 years ago, writing an entry every other day or so. At some point early on, I graduated to writing every single day of the year, with very few exceptions.
Through this Journal, I’ve tried to cover a wide variety of interesting topics, as you can see by the red “Journal Topics” section in the right column of this site’s home page.
Regular readers know that I’ve also shared many of my personal joys and sorrows.
Sure, there are days when I’m very tired or very busy, and it would be easier to just skip a day — but writing is both cathartic and cumulative for me, so I try to do it every single day, even when I don’t really feel like it.
And it helps motivate me that my audience has slowly crept up from just a few each day to a few thousand each day, which gives me the feeling that my writing is helping others as well as myself.
In contrast, millions of blogs have long since been abandoned, leaving only 5 percent of the more than 133 million that used to exist. The New York Times tells us some reasons why.
I’m really glad that I still maintain this Journal every day. But I doubt that you’ll ever see me tweet.
I think that’s just a fad that will die out before too long.
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