Comments on: Updated Blogs O’Plenty

By: Speedcat Loopinsteeners

Speedcat Loopinsteeners — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:28:19 +0000

having a couple of thousand dead blogs is just a tricky way of capture

By: Michelle Gartner

Michelle Gartner — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:13:26 +0000

Me thinks Mike is being a little generous with his time frame of a dead blog. I am certain that I would probably dump a blog out of my reader as dead after just two months. Unless I really really really liked the person or the blog. A year before the blog is dead… hmm that’s a long time, I have house plants that don’t last that long.

By: meleah rebeccah

meleah rebeccah — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:01:25 +0000

So, when would you consider a blog dead?

when its not being updated!

By: Mike Goad

Mike Goad — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:21:10 +0000

That’s easy. If a blog hasn’t been posted to in 12 months, it’s dead.

It may be able to be revived, but until it’s resuscitated — and that may prove difficult, given that there hasn’t been any life for 12 months –, it’s doa.

Over 2 months since a post = inactive.

Over 6 months, life-support needed — it’s dead or dying.

By: dcr

dcr — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:20:40 +0000

With at least some of them, I bet they didn’t plan on being gone. I have sites and blogs of my own that probably look abandoned. It’s just that, for whatever reason, you don’t get back to it. Things get put off until tomorrow. Then the next day, and so on. Sooner or later, you might even forget about it. Worse, it always stays in the back of your mind, nagging you. You don’t want to pull the plug. You may not even want to admit you’re gone. You’ll be back.

Tomorrow.

Or the next day.

And it’s easy to lose track of time.

With others though, you do wonder. Especially with those who seemingly drop off the face of the Earth. I know one blogger who hasn’t updated his blog since last fall, but last posted on Twitter on Sunday. And there are others like that. You know they are still out there. But, then there are the ones you don’t see anywhere. What happened to them? Were they eaten by killer radishes?

By: JD at I Do Things

JD at I Do Things — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:42:50 +0000

I come across seemingly dormant blogs when I’m dropping Entrecards. It’s weird. I always wonder if something violent happened. Why wouldn’t you just slap up a “good-bye” post or “gone fishing” message? Why the abrupt . . . gone-ness?