Moi? Abandoned Blogs

Ohh... for about a year now I've been part of the 125.6 million blogs that hadn't been updated in 120 days:

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.

Reading the article, most of these people had pretty lofty dreams for their blogs. I, on the other hand, don't care if anyone reads this site. Sometimes I just want to publish! So why did I take a break?

Mr. Jalichandra of Technorati -- a blogger himself -- also points out that some retired bloggers have merely found new platforms. “Some of that activity has gone to Facebook and MySpace, and obviously Twitter is a new phenomenon,” he said.

That is a nice point. I didn't really stop blogging for long. As Nate pointed out, I started doing "micro-blogging" with my Facebook status updates. And recently I've been experimenting with Twitter.

But the truth is that sometimes blogging is hard. Some days I just have nothing to say, and trying to find something for the day's post became tedious. Especially during the election cycle. I'm not going to blame it for my absence, but I did burn out on discussing Hill-dog, Barry, and the Maverick all the time. Or, at the very least, them being the dominant topic on the internet.

Lately, however, I've found myself wanting to post larger entries again. Things more than 140 characters. I wrote a couple notes on Facebook, but that's unsatisfying. So here I am. And here I'll stay... as long as the muse is with me.