Howdy...

I'm working on things today, and don't have a ton of time for this, but I wanted to say something about the stat that came out last week...that every second, a new blog is being created. Depending on how fast a reader you are, that makes oh, three or so that have been made since you clicked over, and read this paragraph.

That's a lot of people throwing their thoughts out into this medium, and that stat is fucking nuts. Still, I think probly five percent of people who start a blog are going to be satisfied with it. To actually sit down and work at something day after day, with any sort of quality, is hard as fuck. (8 more just started) I'm pretty sure, when historians comb through the data-files of the internet they are going to find a billion junked blogs...with three or four posts, drifting forlorn and covered in digital spiderwebs. I haven't heard of any stats telling us, how many blogs are abandoned every second, but it'd be interesting to know.

There are plenty of sites that have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, to promote, host, design, and put content on, their internet dream, that just drifted off to die when the revenue stream didn't work out...and a blog? Shit, you ever even bother to hit the "Next Blog" button at the top of the blogger toolbar? Most, you'd read and never bother to come back. Fjord drifts between 25 and 80 unique visitors a day (lots less on the weekend) and most of those people pop in at random, and never come back - and this is something I throw a little bit of effort at every day. The bigger blogs can pull in 10-20-40,000 hits a day, which is a HUGE audience, but even minor-league television shows get 3 or 4 million viewers in an HOUR. (just to keep things in perspective)

Well anyways, the timer for my pasta just went off. I had it set for 7:30 seconds, and that's when I started writing this. That's 450 new blogs since I started this post. I sort of wonder what their expectations are.