Websiteforensics.com » Blogging http://websiteforensics.com we remember when the web was in black and white ... Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:16:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 How Many Dead Blogs On Your Windshield? http://websiteforensics.com/blogging/dead-blogs-how-many/ http://websiteforensics.com/blogging/dead-blogs-how-many/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:50:47 +0000 Mark MacKinnon http://www.websiteforensics.com/?p=219 The web is now littered with dead blogs. According to the New York Post, there were 200,000 abandoned blogs … in 2007. According to Richard Jalichandra of Technorati, the number of abandoned blogs is anywhere from 7 to 10 million in 2009.

Why do people abandon their blogs? Why do they start them in the first place? Too many have bought into the rags to riches stories of self-employed bloggers or have run out of topics, energy or desire to update. Now that reality has hit home, these dead blogs litter the web like dead leaves in November.

Read more about dead blogs: New York Times – Times Daily – New York Times – Blogging Experiment…

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