the black death of blogs
In amongst the life clean up that I’ve been doing recently (although after bursts of excitement, most of it has gone totally flat, more on that later) i decided to take the lead of LizSara and have an online clear out.
And in doing so, I got a bit of a shock. Like most people who blog I use an RSS reader (mine of choice is Google reader fact fans) and I subscribe to a lot of blogs, you comment, I read you, that the way things work in Smidge land.
However, with twitter (this is me @miss_smidge) I’ve have gained a whole load of new readers (hi guys and gals) and I didn’t really notice my fellow bloggers dropping off, moving house or just simply disappearing.
Until today when I deleted 100 blogs from my reader that had simply stopped up dating.
WTF??
Ok some of you have moved and you’ve not given me your new address, i’ve failed to follow you or forgotten to delete the old address, but come on, 100 missing blogs, and all of them have given up since April?
What the hell is going on? Where are you all going? Is there something more fun than blogging going on that I don’t know about? Is it twitter’s fault? I must be missing a party somewhere, or maybe this blogging thing has got boring…
…Anyways, i’m doing a spring clean around here, so if you are still around and haven’t commented for a while or moved house recently, let me know and ill add your blog, or if you want to stay in my links then let me know that too.
Or if you have any new blogs that are worth checking out then pass them this way, i’m about to have to do some work rather than reading blogs instead!
Kx
I’ve found that too. I now have more gossip articles in my RSS reader than blog posts and it makes me sad.
I’m doing the same thing, thanks to that new Google Dashboard. It’s taking a million years, but it feels great.
I’m also clearing out my Gmail contacts list, which is connected with my Blackberry. I’m drowning under internet people who I don’t care about and people who don’t care about me.
I want to stick with my nearest and dearest and forget the rest.
I’ve noticed lately that people aren’t updating as much as they used to..my reader seems to be taken up with fashion and beauty blogs now rather than life ones which are all sitting there dormant. I think a lot of people, me included, are either too busy or are having a bit of writers block..or perhaps its just the weather?!
I’m finding a lot of people aren’t updating their blogs as frequently as they used to (whatever ‘used to’ means), but they’re still out there. Why they don’t update, I couldn’t say there’s one single reason across the board, but lack of motivation doesn’t seem to be the leader of the excuse pack; lack of time does!
Anyway, I’d be stuffed without my bloglines account. These days I seem to live on RSS feeds. So I had a look at the RSS stats for my blog and am amazed to see that 73 people live on the feed, in addition to the varying number of daily visitors. Perhaps we’re all becoming feed-dwellers?
I know there was a point earlier on in the year where loads of people announced they were giving up blogging all at once – but most of them came back! I guess I don’t subscribe to THAT many blogs though (when I say not that many, I mean over 100 but still . . .)
161 feeds in my bloglines account. :-)
I still have over 100, its just sad to see so many go!
i just went thru my reader too and cleaned it up. i’m glad because there were some feeds that needed to be updated. it is sad about the people who stopped writing though :(