When someone quotes you a figure for the number of weblogs there are around, you should mentally be subtracting at least a third to account for weblogs that are no longer active – at least according to figures from the NITLE blog census discussed once again by blogcount. I would expect this proportion to rise somewhat over time – at the moment I imagine the weblog phenomenon is still growing fast enough that a large number of users are new ones. If they become disenchanted and the rate of new entries begins to fall the proportion of “live” weblogs to dead ones may fall.
Thanks to Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka weblog for the link
31 July 2003
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How is this different than noting that the distribution of activity in most social system is power-log distributed? Are those low frequency blogs good or bad? Would open-source be better if we eliminated the folks that post only one enhancement in a lifetime?
Comment by Ben — 1 August 2003 @ 1:45 am
Below a certain frequency a weblog isn’t a weblog at all though. Unlike personal web pages because they tend to be explicitly chronological they become increasingly irrelevant if they are left untended.
Comment by David Brake — 1 August 2003 @ 10:37 am