Detritus on the Side of the Information Superhighway

Posted by Melanie Phung on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 at 8:34 am

Perseus Development conducted a random survey and determined that 66% of blogs have not been updated in two months. This represents 2.72 million blogs that are essentially abandoned. Of these, 1.09 million were one-day wonders and never updated. At this rate, a new blog is abandoned every 2 minutes, 24 seconds.

If trends remain constant, nearly 13.1 million Technorati-tracked blogs are abandoned by their authors every two months, of which 5.3 million blogs are abandoned after a single post.

Read more about the state of the Splogosphere in ClickZ’s article Search v. the Splogosphere.