Comments on: Blogosphere Grows, Posting Slows

By: Jeff carpunky

Jeff carpunky — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:53:57 +0000

Hi,

I am amazed that all the people but one person had a blog at your church.

I can never find anyone in my area who knows anything about blogging or having a website in general.

I guess living in more of a rural area that it is not to uncommon. People just do not know what there missing.

Anyway, great job on getting the word out to the church.

Jeff

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By: Patricia Skinner

Patricia Skinner — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:59:00 +0000

Sadly, there are many abandoned blogs in the blogosphere. Essentially they are just cluttering cyberspace. Like Twitter members who don't update and their Twitter blog is still languishing there after a year or more. I wish it could all be cleaned up. The number of active, useful blogs is probably far smaller to the numbers mentioned here. Patricia Skinner's last blog post..Proactive Reputation Management From the Ground Up

By: Adam Bryson

Adam Bryson — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:37:11 +0000

Ari: I think Google’s algorithm can be anything they want it to be since it is their business.
But to be fair, they should make their PR standards and process public, cut the mystery and secrecy, and give people/companies recourse if they feel unfairly knocked or penalized. The “man behind the curtain” smacks of unfair competition.

By: Zurpit

Zurpit — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:36:26 +0000

A lot of the blogs created are abandoned because after a while a lot of people quit since they find it boring or don’t see any results

By: MGA

MGA — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:12:13 +0000

I feel like, recently %50 of the blogs that I’ve read are only concerning to post something to get paid. And those kind of blogs are unfortunately full of unnecessary information which make me feel regret for spending my time after i finish reading. With the amount of articles/blogs that i read, it is hard to make a general comments about the quality, but I was trying to share my experience.

By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:52:00 +0000

@Shailesh—GREAT analogy!

@Kouji—Mid-twenties.

By: Shailesh Ghimire

Shailesh Ghimire — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:47:01 +0000

Blogging is like joining the gym – I know so many people who have started blogs becuase they liked the concept. Then they abandon the effort because they lose interest. A lot of the people in my circle who started blogs did so to share personal stories, pictures, videos and links. Now all of that is possible on a social networking site like Facebook. I see the very same people more active there – they write stuff about things they’re thinking (blog post) and post videos, share picture etc.

So, in essence, I think blogging will see a decline among the masses. It will shift to become more of a domain subject matter experts, category enthusiasts and such folks. The vast majority who joined do the same thing but on social networking sites – much easier to do and you have a ready audience – your friends.

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By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:38:20 +0000

Just happy here to be above 50

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By: kouji

kouji — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:36:04 +0000

how interesting. i wonder what the average age was at the class you taught. nice of you to teach it, by the way, as i feel that getting more people involved in blogging is pretty much a positive thing. at the same time, i wonder how long most blogs tend to remain active. it's much easier to set up a blog now, but it's quite another thing to make it viable into the long term. kouji's last blog post..haiku poem: soft

By: Kaila Colbin

Kaila Colbin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:55:34 +0000

Great and interesting post, Jordan. What I would add (and what I did add on my blog) is the benefit of the drop in number of posts: higher quality content, from more serious people, who are committed to the medium for the long term. When the blogosphere came about, millions of people around the world thought, "Great! An easy way to become a famous writer!" Now those people are realizing what the rest of us already know: there is no easy way. Kaila Colbin's last blog post..Blog well, or don't blog at all

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By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:06:43 +0000

Jordan, I make no presumptions what people do or do not know, but as I hadn’t followed your blog for the past year, I stated the facts as I knew them. I’m glad to hear you’re on top of Technorati.

Adam: I’ve heard some talk that Google’s pageranking computer algorithm is not the best metric we should follow, comparing it to neophyte Wikia Search, for instance. Thoughts?

By: Nicole Price

Nicole Price — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:28:35 +0000

I agree with Sheppy. Many start and after the initial enthusiasm wears off and they do not generate enough visitors, they cool off. Nicole Price's last blog post..Most Value Packed Cars

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By: sheppy

sheppy — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:34:39 +0000

Adam you make a good point however I think that'll only be a small group of people doing that, who know about SEO? I'd be tempted to say that the vast majority of bloggers won't be concerned by this, or know about PR. More likely that more and more people want to jump on the bandwagon of blogging, like the idea, but get bored of the idea. I've just started blogging, and hope that I don't have the same fate! sheppy's last blog post..There’s no such thing as Search Engine Optimisation!

By: Adam Bryson

Adam Bryson — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:34:11 +0000

Google is not helping the growth of blogs and posts when they knock down a site’s PR in a gross display of unfair competition. From what I’ve seen, many bloggers are abandoning their established blogs when Google knocks them and then those same bloggers are creating new blogs for the sake of higher PR which artificially inflates the number of blogs. Just my thoughts.

By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:33:11 +0000

Because Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere report was written by Technorati.

The decline of Technorati as a blog search engine has not been lost on us; we’ve been posting about it for at least a year.

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:02:57 +0000

I'm curious why you refer to Technorati and not Google Blog Search or some other engine. After all, Technorati is indexing less... so your above numbers are not representative of the total. Here's a recent blog post of mine about the bloggerati at Technorati, including a bit where I pose the question if Technorati is dying.