Blog Minx

So I was bored today and started browsing MyBlogLog. MyBlogLog, once you join, automagically adds blogs to your Community list when you’ve visited them, assuming  that just because you glance at a blog once you must love it and want to be associated with it forever. Which is a bit silly – isn’t that what RSS feeds are for?

Anyway, I was looking through my Community list and saw a lot of blogs I used to frequent but had lost track of. I clicked on the names to see what people were up to and discovered that 98% of the blogs fell into one of three categories:

1) They hadn’t been updated since July 2007
2) They had been sold and the person now running them was not a particularly good blogger – lifeless, impersonal posts that left me feeling a little sad
3) ‘This Page Does Not Exist – but hey, click on one of these irrelevant links!’

The experience was akin to wandering through a cemetery and reading the headstones: “Here lies Blog A, May 2007-September 2007. Died of natural causes.” It was a reminder that most blogs are ephemeral, and that although some may achieve that longed-for status of $100+ a week on AdSense, 1000 subscribers and publication of an ebook on how awesome they are, many don’t.

So let’s spare a moment of silencio for our friends of yesteryear, shrug and check our own stats once again.

Are there any departed blogs or bloggers that you miss? Or is your own blog gathering cobwebs?