Here is an interesting article posted on Slashdot:
..."Douglas Quenqua reports in the NY Times that according to a 2008 survey only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days meaning that "95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web,...
...There's a joke within the blogging community that most blogs have an audience of one....
I remember reading an article that said after the 2001 dot-com crash, there were some millions of personal home pages left dead on the Internet (Remember those flashy "HTML 3.0" home-pages?). Blogging is one of the symbols of Web 2.0. Does the result of Slashdot report indicates that Web 2.0 is seeing its end of life?
Well, at least my blog is still active (and the number of audience is an integer greater than 1 =). Ironically, given that half of my blog posts were written in Chinese, Blogger is not widely accessible by the Chinese people thanks to the censoring by the Chinese government.
Perhaps I should transfer my blog to either Baidu or Sina?
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