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Posted on Friday, October 1st, 2004

Dave!Is blogging becoming passe? In order to have something to look at while on the phone this morning, I started cruising my "second tier" blog links... the blogs I don't read daily, but check in on every couple of months or so. I was a bit surprised to learn that a big chunk of them are gone and a majority of those remaining hadn't been updated in quite some time. This has me wondering if the blogging bubble has burst and weblogs are on the way "out." Since even some of my "first tier" blogs are being updated with decreasing frequency, it just might be time.

The number one excuse for stopping a blog (of those who bothered to post a final entry) is "this blog is occupying too much of my time, and I've got a life to live" - or something to that effect. I suppose this implies that those of use who blog regularly don't have a life? This is bizarre, because the 10 minutes a day I spend writing for Blogography hardly seems like a dent in my life (of course, if there are photos to crop or cartoons to draw, it takes a bit longer... but still).

Anyway, while people's willingness to write in a blog appear to be diminishing, their appetite for reading them seems to have no signs of letting up...

Subdomain Stats

A year ago my Hard Rock Cafe site DaveCafe.com, occupied just over 80% of my traffic. Today, it's hovering at 10% and falling. The only other domain I track, DaveSpot.com, used to get 6% and is now under 2%. But the interesting thing to see here is that the traffic for both of these domains hasn't much changed. They just look like they are doing worse because the page hits for Blogography keep growing (obviously, DaveSpot is redundant now that I have a blog, so I've just now redirected all links to here).

Naturally, all of this has me thinking: "I wonder how much longer it will be before I decide to hang it up and shut down my blog?"


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Comments

  1. kazza says:

    Well I hope it’s not anytime soon, I’d miss you immensly.

  2. Dave2 says:

    I had considered “taking a break” for the month of October which is shaping up to be a very busy month for me, but then figured it might be tough to get back in the blogging habit. So… it looks like I’ll be around for a little while longer. 🙂

  3. Perry says:

    Don’t you bloody dare. It’s the only way I know what is happening to my goody buddy on the other side of the pond.

    If anything I would say lets have more cartoons – they are so funny.

    BE GOOD!

  4. jenny says:

    If you stop I am coming up there to kick your ass! And I know where you live, well I know the town, so I guess I kind of know where you live, okay not really.

  5. Dave2 says:

    Heaven only knows I could use a good ass kicking…
    🙂

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