I recently read somewhere that someone did a study of blogs. They said that most are not update often and the vast majority don’t last very long. It was an interesting read. As with anything people do, you have the eager beginning, then a slow tapering off of doing something. That is true if you don’t find the task interesting. Take exercising for instance. I started to do different routines for months. I would do it for a while and then slowly stop. I just wasn’t into it. People try blogging out and then they decide hey I don’t want to publish my thoughts for all to see. I for one used to write a journal. I think I started when I went cross country in 1989. I wanted to log what I did and where we went. Then I wrote on and off again into an online journal I made in Microsoft Word starting back in 1994 or 95. I did it some what frequently and then stopped. At the beginning of this year I started thinking about breaking out the old journal and start writing again. To me writing like this is very relaxing. I get to ponder what happened over the past several days, and type things out. I don’t think that much about writing, I just write what comes to mind. When Gus brought to light the whole blogging trend, I decided to give it a try. More than 7 months later I am still making several entries a week. For me the fad is still fresh. Some days I don’t enter anything at all. Other days I have made 5 or 6 entries.
So is the “study” correct about blogging? Probably, and probably not. You can make a study that says anything. Statistics never lie, but statistics can be analyzed in ways to totally screw up the results. Lets face it, somewhere there are studies that say smoking is good for you!!! My random thoughts for the day…