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October 09, 2003
Fear of commitment, man
Noticed this at VampWillow's place, which I really should read more often: The Blogging Iceberg - Of 4.12 Million Hosted Weblogs, Most Little Seen, Quickly Abandoned.
Males were more likely than females to abandon blogs, with 46.4% of abandoned blogs created by males, as compared to 40.7% of active blogs being created by males. Abandonment rates did not vary based on age. Those who abandoned blogs tended to write posts that were only 58% as long as the posts of those who still maintained blogs, which simply indicates that those who enjoy writing stick with blogs longer.
Honestly. Men.
Other thing that jumped out:
Blogs are updated much less often than generally thought. 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.Only 13,600 blogs were resumed after being abandoned. These blogs had been recently updated when surveyed, despite previously having been updated on average every 112 days.
The average home page of the active blogger included posts for eight unique days. Home page size was 26.4KB (excluding images and external code such as JavaScript or style sheets).
It's one thing to know you're a freak of nature, but to have objective scientific proof of it. . . no, no good can come of continuing that train of thought.
Oh, and from the charts, the majority of blogs/journals/thingees are maintained by double-X chromosome types (56%) and those between 13 and 19 (51.5%).
So basically, I'm too old and too male(-born-male living as a male) to be doing this sort of thing. And also too damn wordy.
I'm probably also too Black, but race wasn't mentioned in the (heh) white paper.
Story of my life.
Posted by Aaron at October 9, 2003 11:42 AM
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"too black, too strong" [PE sample...feel free to shame me by knowing who the original speaker was]
well, i abandoned a couple blogs, but at least i linked to one of them.
i'm about ready to delete the other one, it really has no reason to be allowed to live.
how about you -- do you have any 'orphans' out there?
Posted by: r@d@r at October 9, 2003 12:11 PM
You also post too damned much.
You're a blogging freak of nature!
Posted by: j. brotherlove at October 9, 2003 12:19 PM
Well, there was about 6 months when we were getting like a post every 30 days or so...he's just making up for lost time.
And I'm starting to really embrace this "fringe" status I've got going on.
I don't like being part of the "most."
Posted by: Jason at October 9, 2003 12:38 PM
I'd say something pithy, but I have to go post something on my blog.
Posted by: P6 at October 9, 2003 02:08 PM
Orphans, r@d@r? Is that what you call it when you just abandon your offspring and walk out on a relationship? Men! With your sales!
Sorry. I'll ask about adjusting my dosage next time I see the doc.
Unless you count the pre-MT stuff or the junk at my Earthlink pages, nope, no orphans for me. . .
j. brotherlove, see, I really have no life.
Jason, all the interesting stuff is on the fringes. Like us.
P6, I'd respond, but I'm too busy wondering when was the last time only men commented on an entry here.
Posted by: Aaron at October 9, 2003 02:52 PM