I know the chart is fuzzy, but that's how I like statistics!

(1) November 15-16;  (2)  16-17;  (3) 17-18;  (4) 18-19; (5) 19-20; (6)  20-21; (7) 21-22

new posts: (1)  200   (2)  250   (3)   275    (4)   425   (5)   575    (6)   1000  (7)  1675

Xanga has always been a big holiday draw and Thanksgiving appears no exception.  The plot above portrays the submission of new posts daily over the past week, from morning till morning.  So Nov 15-16 was last Thursday morning to Friday morning, Nov 16-17 was last Friday morning to Saturday morning, etc.  It should be noted that last Thursday there was about an 8 hour outage during the day that probably adversely impacted submissions.

Over so short a time span, not much conclude except:

It appears that at most there are no more than 345 (average of first 5 days, the last two left of due to "holiday effect") daily bloggers (daily regulars)--less than 1% of the 40,000 plus members (current and once-upon).  Actually, my own feeling is that a more realistic figure of daily regulars (rarely missing a day--like myself and others you know, e.g., fairestc, verymodern, riottgrrrl, virgilmvx, etc.) is closer to 200-250, or about one half of 1% of all all-time members.  That's a very modest number in terms of internet "traffic" but in terms of community cohesion, too sizable for any one person to keep in daily contact with.  Nothing like 3/4 of a year ago when there were probably about 25-35 regulars and you could daily reach out and touch everyone! 

I'll follow up next week sometime with a matching chart to examine the post-Thanksgiving developments.