It’s Time To Cull The Herd
February 22nd, 2008 | by Administrator |If an election didn’t get your blog fired up after months of dormancy, perhaps nothing will. Two months of inactivity will get you deleted, but you won’t be forgotten. The following blogs have been removed from the link roll, to make room for the new kids on the blog. If you’ve been deleted and wish to be re-added, email albertablogs@gmail.com
Some thoughts and statistics:
Thoughts:
The issue of ‘blog churn‘ is the reason why I track dead blogs in Alberta. For more information, please go HERE. Many new bloggers toy with the technology for a while, then they become discouraged, and simply abandon their blogs. Thus, it’s important to track the rate of growth of inactive blogs versus the rate of active ones. Why? It tells us if people are really using the technology. Sure, the blogosphere is growing, but how many of those blogs are even active?
Statistics:
* To date, 157 bloggers have joined Alberta Blogs.
* As of today, 89 remain. That is to say they have updated their blogs two months ago or less.
* In total, 68 blogs have been deleted from the blogroll since this blog began. These blogs are either dead (as in MIA), or the blogger has not updated in the two months prior to the purge.
* Although data were not gathered, bloggers who announce their impending blog-death are in the minority. The majority simply dropped out of the blogosphere.
* Latin-sounding blog names seem to have a higher propensity to quit. Having a latin-sounding blog name seems to increase your probability of NOT maintaining a blog by at least 100%.
* Any new blogger has a 57% chance of staying on the blogroll. This percentage could change, depending on when the blog purge takes place.
Certified Bibliophile (changed to Prolegomena)
Capitalist Pig Vs. Socialist Swine
Cannuckistan Chronicles (Changed to no-libs)
Renewing The One Party State (closed to readers)
Nick’s Cafe Canadien (Changed to Nicholas Tam)
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