Ever notice on the weekends, especially Saturdays, the general fall-off in blogging?  Sure you have.  I’ve quantified it statistically before, and believe that the phenomenon is so regular and obvious that I won’t even bother to do so now. 

Today’s question is why?  In one sense, it seems counterintuitive.  You’d think that weekends would be when more peeps have more leisure on their hands  and that leisure and blogging would be correlates :: more leisure=more blogging.  But blogging’s reduced.  Peak is typically mid-day during the week.

Three explanatory factors for the diminished activity occur to me:

1) There are peeps who blog primarily from school (labs, library).  In class.  Between classes.  A lot of schools will have faster internet access (leased lines) and it’s smart to take advantage of them.  And faster means more activity.  But of course…there is no *school* on the weekends.  Also, blogging moms and dads may have to watch their kids more attentively on the weekends.  Or may set the weekends aside for *family activities*.

2) There are peeps who blog relentlessly from work.  Again, the opportunity for access may be a rationale.  Or the avoidance of work responsibilities.  “Hey, look, I’m getting paid for blogging!”  Just don’t tell the boss.  Since the work week is typically Monday-Friday, weekends bring a fall-off in job-blogging.

3) Since the population of Xanga is relatively youthful (82% less than 25 years of age, 32% less than 15 years of age) and hence, largely unmarried, peeps are too busy living, thrashing, breathing, dating, elating, diffusing, escaping = partying on the weekend.  Weekdays are *back-to-school, back-to-work* and back to a more bloggable regimen.

Anyway, the above are just suggestions, not definitive findings.

But speculate this:  Of those who have blogged from work (and there are, from time-to-time, a good number of us ), how much comparable worth ($$ hourly wage, salary paid) do you think has been diverted furtively into Xanga in the past year?  My wild guess: about $500,000 (equivalent to 400 peeps a day spending one-half hour of work time at $10 an hour) .