How many dead blogs does it take to kill us?

[QuirkyJessi]

There are, apparently, 1.2 billion blogs out there of which 95% are ‘dead’ (ie no activity for 3 or more months). This doesn’t even take into account the non-English speaking blogs – there are also over 73 million Chinese bloggers just for starters…

So if the average blog uses up half a GB of disc space and there are 1,073,741,824 bytes in a gig (assuming the use of gigibyte being 1024 to the power of 3 and not gigabyte being 1000 cubed) and there are 95 x 100/1,200,000,000 dead blogs (English speaking only) that means that there are 1,073,741,824 x 95 x 100/2 x 1,200,000,000 bytes of forgotten information in dead blogs. Also take into account the billions of archived posts in active blogs, unread undiscarded emails, undeleted spam, ........

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[jadeslair]

This is so funny, because I have landed on a bunch of them lately. A bunch were self hosted so they must still pay the hosting fee. Maybe they just collect their check and pay the hosting.

[Zethix]

That's how quite a few of my blogs have ended up. I think the main thing is to try to only start blogs with topics that you have a genuine interest in, and continually look for inspiration on new material to post about.

[newfound love]

how about locked blogs? are they considered part of the 95%?