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| Written by Jono Cono Blog Explosion or Implosion? I would say that blogging is continuous by nature or should be, constantly evolving or changing. As a blogger I know that we sometimes have lapses in writing. Either we don’t feel like writing, can’t think of anything good to write or just need a break. Regardless of that I think a good blog will have smaller periods of time without any updates…say less than two years.
Yesterday I read an article from Business week that coincided nicely with the results of some later blog surfing. The article made many good points, one of them being that while there may be over 9 million blogs out there the majority of them are junk:
Self-obsession, politics of hate, and the same hunger for fame that has people lining up to trade punches on The Jerry Springer Show. Name just about anything that’s sick in our society today, and it’s on parade in the blogs. On lots of them, even the writing stinks.
That point is very true, anyone who’s done their fair share of surfing random blogs has surely come across blogs that would fit into the above. Some may find some of these blogs shocking and others may just find them sadly wanton or otherwise predictably lacking.
Later in the day yesterday I was surfing through Blog Explosion when I again realized how many blogs out there fit into a different category. Blog Explosion is a blog directory so what I am about to describe is a two part problem. Surfing randomly through Blog Explosion although starting with Canadian blogs I quickly recognized a pattern. Most of these blogs either hadn’t been updated in years and were just static remnants of what they were or could have been or they weren’t a blog at all.
I’m sure most everyone has run across websites that have domains one letter off from a real website, these sites are just sitting there for the purpose of making money off sponsored links and Adsense. They’re complete crap and a waste of time. A lot of blog listings in Blog Explosion will have the name of the blog, a (blog like) description etc. You click on the link and voila, no blog or it’s a completely different website full of sponsored links or trying to sell something.
Blog Explosion as a blog directory should have some method of purging old blogs, dead blogs and non blogs. Even if it’s as simple as allowing users to flag these blogs as they’re going through. I probably surfed through 100 blogs last night, roughly 15 of them had been updated in the past week or were an actual blog. Blog Explosion does have requirements for blogs submissions, but once the blog or site is in the directory there doesn’t seem to be any rules regarding maintenance and keeping the directory active and up to date. It’s something they may want to work on!
Looks like we share an interest in DEAD BLOGS check out my dedicated site, for all the abandoned blogs that you can handle, documented using wry humour blended seamlessly with sincere sentiment. We are the self proclaimed ‘Official home of the certified dead blog’:
“BLOGS THAT DIED TOO YOUNG”
http://ontheblogheap.blogspot.com/