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Keith

I go way back to BEFORE the internet. I used to play Star Trek on a teletype in my apartment for $ 9 per cpu hour, plus crushing long distance charges. There were NO personal computers in the mid- 1970s…yet.

I remember the days of Genie and Compuserve and bbs systems when you would log on to post comments, chat or play Legend of the Red Dragon, all in TEXT.

Back then BBS sites would come up and die, some died because people hacked the site and stole all the personal and credit information of the users. I remember one very popular dating site going down because of this. This was back in the early 1990s.

There seem to be many reasons why blogs go inactive or die. I have seen blogs where the blogger says ” I am burned out . “, or ” I have personal reasons for quitting. ” , yet the blog stays up.

But one problem that I have seen is that Blogger has rules which limit nudity. And uses it to censor popular blogs. One had over a million hits, had NO nudity on it, yet someone found it offensive because the blogger was a lesbian. I mentioned this on my blog and was really angry about it because the blogger made really interesting and intelligent posts and shouldn’t have been censored.

Other blogs stop working or the blogger quits blogging but never removes the blog.

One of my favorite blogs, Pittsburgh Dish, no longer seems to work and I can’t access it, even to look at past posts.

Perhaps what is needed is a blog DPW ( like a street sweeper truck ) which would contact the blogger and remove blogs after a period of time, say a year or so without any activity.

I ping Technorati every time I post or sometimes in a few days depending on how I am doing physically. I have over 5 or 600 posts in a over a year at this point.

I am signed up on a number of reporting sites, but don’t get many comments. I don’t think people aren’t reading it, but there are technical issues that limit me from knowing for sure . ( see below ).

I do wish there were some kind of course on how to do technical things on a blog. I don’t know how to do certain things and frequently you see things like – insert this into the header, etc. I’ve never known how to do this.

Perhaps a blogging course and maybe a blogging etiquette course as well is needed ?

If you die, I guess your blog lives on forever…

As they say in the LASFS, death will not release you, even if you die…

I think, it is important to accent relevance and impact of blogging. Or just because people loves numbers :)

Some people have websites that they count as blogs such as ProBlogger or Steve Pavalina.

Has a blog ever been clearly defined?

Here’s the link of the group for more informations: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=63592900264&ref=share

I post the link of your post on the group. :)

How do we define what an active blog is? As Michael suggests one blog post a month? Or more than daily as Harald suggests?

Fire Town: The meaningfulness of blogs is an interesting discussion. If there are 1 billion blogs, what does it mean if 99,99% are inactive, or contain useless information? Which in its turn releases another discussion, what is meaningful? What is meaningful for me might not be meaningful for you. Do blogs need to be meaningful?