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So…what was the reason to have a blog if no one comments?

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

“So why do blogs have a higher failure rate than restaurants?” asks a New York Times Sunday Styles article, by Douglas Quenqua, June 7, 2009.

“According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned…”  as a result of failure to attract traffic.

But not all abandoned blogs die from lack of reader interest. Some bloggers find themselves too busy! And therein lies the rub!
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