October 5th, 2003
Abandoned Blogs
The Blogging Iceberg –
Of 4.12 Million Hosted Weblogs,Most Little Seen, Quickly Abandoned
Perseus Development Corp. randomly surveyed 3,634 blogs on eight leading blog-hosting services to develop a model of blog populations. Based on this research, Perseus estimates that 4.12 million blogs have been created on these services: Blog-City, BlogSpot, Diaryland, LiveJournal, Pitas, TypePad, Weblogger and Xanga.
The most dramatic finding was that 66.0% of surveyed blogs had not been updated in two months…