Where Do Dead Blogs Go?
So many bloggers come online and hope for some type of fame. How many hits can I get a day? Can I get some google ads and make money? And yes, I fall into that category. Haven't made a penny yet - although thankfully my readership has been up (love you guys!) . So is that why so many blogs go silent so quickly? Did they sign on with hopes of fame and realize it is hard to get more than 15 readers a week? Frankly, I am surprised we made it this many months.
So, I have a question for the internet world: Where do dead blogs go? Why are they allowed to waste space on the internet?
I did a little google search and found a website article from 2003 that said this:
“The most dramatic finding was that 66.0% of surveyed blogs had not been updated in two months, representing 2.72 million blogs that have been either permanently or temporarily abandoned.
So, I have a question for the internet world: Where do dead blogs go? Why are they allowed to waste space on the internet?
I did a little google search and found a website article from 2003 that said this:
“The most dramatic finding was that 66.0% of surveyed blogs had not been updated in two months, representing 2.72 million blogs that have been either permanently or temporarily abandoned.
Apparently the blog-hosting services have made it so easy to create a blog that many tire-kickers feel no commitment to continuing the blog they initiate. In fact, 1.09 million blogs were one-day wonders, with no postings on subsequent days. The average duration of the remaining 1.63 million abandoned blogs was 126 days (almost four months).
A surprising 132,000 blogs were abandoned after being maintained a year or more (the oldest abandoned blog surveyed had been maintained for 923 days).”
Over a million blogs are only alive for one day (and that was 2003, imagine what it is now). Why? Should there be an expiration date? Should blog hosting websites say update or you are shut down?Labels: Blogs
posted by Shawn at 5:02 PM
1 Comments:
i think there needs to be some sort of filter. Some kind of dreck-drainer that searches for dead blogs (i.e, inactive for two years +) and then a committee rates them to see if their content is worth keeping in the collective internet memory. If deemed irrelevant (which would be cast 97% of the time), that blog would be removed from all search engines and the site's database. for all we know, the cause of Blogger's weekly hiccups is a massive glut of dead blogs weighing the rest of us down.
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