Wayne Hurlbert posts about the abandonment of a blog, and this is happening across the blogosphere everyday I’m sure. What is being done to track the number of blogs that die everyday? We hear that blog births are thousands per day, but we never get to hear of the number of blog deaths. I wonder if Dave Sifry is discussing with his people a way to track the death of blogs as well as the birth of them. He does not mention it so far in his State of the Blogosphere.
Tags: Dave Sifry, Wayne Hurlbert, blogosphere, blog tracking
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Open any Blogger hosted blog and use the toolbar to click ‘Next Blog’. So many blogs can be found left abandoned. The good thing is that just as these blogs die their readers disappear and noone really worries too much about them. I imagine the number of abandoned blogs is higher than most of us would expect.
Interesting question, I have wondered myself.
One thing I dislike about blog death, is the fact some of them remain in the traffic sites like Blog Explosion or Blogazoo. The blog hasn’t been updated for over a month and I keep having to look at that same post everytime it comes up in the surf queue. I wish they would automatically delete if not updated within a certain time frame.
Also, community blogrolls, or the aggregators, keep listing dead blogs. I hate those things wasting space on the rolls. I try to delete dead blogs off my personal blogrolls after thirty days of “silence”.
He’s portraying blog in a business-oriented way to never say bad things about the deased but always look at how many gave birth.
When people don’t think or look at how many blogs are dead, they simply shut up and tend to there everyday business. How sad, but this is life!
Actually, if you look at part one, he talks about how many blogs on average are still posting regularly 3 months after they are created.
I believe it’s about 50%.
It’d probably be difficult to narrow it down to a smaller timeframe, as when can you really declare a blog “dead”? Sometimes people go on a hiatus for a week, or a month…so tracking how many die in a day would probably be impossible, in my estimation.
If, as David Sifry reports, Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs, and 13.7 million bloggers are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created, does that mean that about half of all blogs are dead? - ‘Are half of the blogs that Technorati tracks dead?’ http://www.josschuurmans.com/josschuurmans/2006/02/are_half_of_the.html
When I first starting looking for blog names I was upset that one I wanted was taken, posted to once and abandoned.
There should be some sort of recycling system/home for wayward blogs where desirable blog names are reused the way that phone numbers are brought back into circulation after a certain amount of downtime.
Of course, now I realize you should have your own domain name as you blog URL so you’re not dependent on the platform, but I digress.
My other blog is dying a slow death. Sort of out of the workforce with a stubbed toe right now.
The current Useless site will only live as long as people keep giving us material, and it is relevant. Then maybe three more weeks…