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6/11/03 3:31 PM

The blogosphere: more dead than alive

There’s a lot of dead wood in the blogforest. Of approximately 4 million registered blogs, 1 million were updated once and once only. A further 1.7 million blogs had not been updated in two months, and only 50,000 blogs were updated daily, according to online researcher Perseus.

Other findings:

· Nine out of ten bloggers are aged 30 or under

· More females blog than males

· More males abandon blogs

· The typical blogger is a teenage girl who updates twice a month to let friends and classmates know what’s being going on in her life

I’ve personally contributed to these stats, with two false starts with blogs titled Unspun and Sowing Wild Oats on blogger.com. Why delete them when they’re free?