Andy Beal points how a new blog is created every 7.4 seconds in a recent Technorati finding. Also, it goes on to say how “nearly half of all blogs are abandoned after just 6 months with 45% falling idle shortly after being started.”
DNJ could improve the signal to noise ratio by cleaning up the abandoned ones from this site -- but I have to be careful as it's been weeks since my last post. I'm just do busy doing stuff to reflect and comment via a blog. If I don't watch it, DNJ may clean me off of DNJ!
Maybe a blog is the “pet rock” of the 21st century: everybody had a pet rock in the 70s . . . until the craze subsided and people stopped paying for stones with googly eyes glued on 'em. I have to admit blogs are much more functional than pet rocks, however, as blogs are a communication medium in their own right and I find them very useful for staying on top of development news etc. I'll keep my 21st century pet rock around for the time being, thank you.