I've blogged too long: I've been writing my blog now for more than three years which, according to recent research from Technorati, makes me one of the old guard. I know that several bloggers have been blogging farlongerthanme, but the great majority of current bloggers started far more recently. Two years ago the number of blogs worldwide stood at 'only' about one million. Today that total is nearer 20 million, half of which are less than six months old. Is that what my survey suggested?
d) 10 utterly random Blogger blogs: Only one of the random blogs I conjured up was more than six months old, while more than half dated back no further than September. I wonder if this is because blogging is a very recent global mega-phenomenon, or whether most of the older bloggers just gave up very quickly. c) The 10 biggest blogs in the world: Hmmm. Some of these are asold as you might expect - 20th century, even. But several don't seem to have any obvious chronological archives at all, being more about the here and now. b) The 10 most recent blogs to link to me: Most of the latest blogs to link to me were started this year, with only one (hi Chig!) pre-dating me. When new bloggers start up they have a habit of linking to existing well-established blogs, and that would seem to include me (blush, thanks). a) 20 blogs from my blogroll: ...whereas half of the blogs I link to have been going longer than me, and none of my blogroll originated in 2005. That's because when I started up my blog I, naturally, also linked to existingwell-establishedblogs. It seems I've not moved on much since. I'm linking to bloggers who (although great) don't really need my support, when perhaps I should be giving a leg up to thenextgeneration. Hmmm, maybe a blogroll update is called for.
Conclusion: Yes, I have been blogging too long, relatively speaking. But everybody has to start somewhere. How about you?
