When I first started blogging back in 2000, there were only an estimated 135,000 blogs worldwide.  Now there are about 5,000,000 with an estimated 10,000,000 in 2004.  If only I could get everyone who blogs to just visit me once and merely donate a dime…hrm.

 

Perseus has done a scientific survey (n=3634) of blogs (to include the following hosts: Blog-City, BlogSpot, Diaryland, LiveJournal, Pitas, TypePad, Weblogger and Xanga) and found:

 

66% or 2.72 million blogs have been abandoned (2 months without update).

 

Active blogs were updated on average every 14 days. Only 106,579 of the hosted blogs were updated on average at least once a week. Fewer than 50,000 were updated daily.

 

92.4% of blogs are created by people under the age of 30.

 

The ‘typical blog’ is written by a teenage girl who uses it twice a month to update her friends and classmates on happenings in her life. It is written very informally with slang spellings, yet not as informal as instant messaging conversations (which are riddled with typos and abbreviations).

 

I’d so love
to be a teeny girl
writing a blog
blending into the blogosphere
like a cog.

 

“It’s on!”“It’s off.”

“He’s hot!”“She’s not.”

In and out of love again and again,
(always wondering who the hell is really my friend).

 

I’d feel more, more deeply than anyone before

(any skuzzi biches disagree-

yo’all alchowhores)

 

“hit me back”

“hit me back”

“hit me back”

: the modus operandi of my reverse attack.

 

I’d swear it’s over: my life…the knife…

(all the time dreaming to become

the hottest stud’s wife)

 

When my blog started to suck

I’d just start another
(reborn like a phoenix?

revived like Snow White?)

naw…twice bitten, once shy
but now fangin to bite.

 

new shoes, new hair,

new boyz, more toyz…

Gonna fill you in on all my joys.

 

“hit me back”

“hit me back”

“hit me back”

(sorri so sorri, I got off track!)

 

I’d so love
to be a teeny girl
writing a blog:
oozing into the blogosmear,
disappearing in the fog.