Holding true since 2001

According to this site, most blogs are abandoned within their first year.

The most dramatic finding was that 66.0% of surveyed blogs had not been updated in two months, representing 2.72 million blogs that have been either permanently or temporarily abandoned. Apparently the blog-hosting services have made it so easy to create a blog that many tire-kickers feel no commitment to continuing the blog they initiate. In fact, 1.09 million blogs were one-day wonders, with no postings on subsequent days. The average duration of the remaining 1.63 million abandoned blogs was 126 days (almost four months). A surprising 132,000 blogs were abandoned after being maintained a year or more (the oldest abandoned blog surveyed had been maintained for 923 days).

I've already beaten the odds! My first post in a weblog was this one, posted on August 12, 2001. I've got a pretty steady record of updates, too, thanks to the encouragement of my mysterious commenter. Thanks, Boris. You dominate.

Posted by Barry at October 07, 2003 06:54 AM | Trackback