According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled.
Judging from conversations with retired bloggers, many of the orphans were cast aside by people who had assumed that once they started blogging, the world would beat a path to their digital door.
Now, for your viewing pleasure, there is a site collecting those remnants of unfulfilled dreams: One post wonder.
[Hat tip: ECONJEFF]
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P.S. - Congratulations to myself for breaking the 6 month blogging-threshold. Amazingly, there are a few mysterious souls lurking in some dark, web-enabled corners of the earth that still return to this blog regularly. Thanks to all those who read and comment on this blog!
