The Blogging Iceberg - Of 4.12 Million Hosted Weblogs, Most Little Seen, Quickly Abandoned
Weblogs
Source: Perseus Development Corporation Full-Text Report, The Blogging Iceberg - Of 4.12 Million Hosted Weblogs, Most Little Seen, Quickly Abandoned Perseus surveyed 3,634 weblogs on eight leading hosting services. "The most dramatic finding was that 66.0% of surveyed blogs had not been updated in two months...." Extrapolating this data to the larger blogosphere, Perseus estimates that 4.12 million blogs have been created on these services, and 2.72 million of these "have been either permanently or temporarily abandoned." A brief comment: This is not a surprise. As I've said many times on ResourceShelf the lasting legacy of weblogs is not the fact that everyone can have one. As this white paper points out many people start one but soon stop. The legacy will be the software and the ease of publishing on the web. So, when the time comes and material needs to be posted, weblog software can make it a simple, quick, and efficient process. Thanks to Shirl Kennedy for submitting the story and annotation. See Also: 'Blogosphere' to reach 10 million, almost all dead - report (via The Register)
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