Where have all the bloggers gone?

Have you ever "Googled" "Blog?" I have to say, as ironic as it is for me to say it on a blog, that I'm a little bit frightened by this whole "Blogosphere" thing. First, most people have no reason with respect to blogging. Either you don't know what a blog is, or you are involved in 5 at a time. Second, people actually expect others to read every damn line of every blog they do. Third people are actually making money, discussing important things like politics and economics, and using these things as informational tools into their personal lives. Between myspace and blogs, everybodys skeletons are marching down broadstreet. Highly amusing.

None of these things are really all that bad, but think about how quickly it happened. Furthermore, why don't people have ... conversations anymore??

This blog shows another interesting thing about blogging. There are thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of orphaned, dead blogs (two of which are mine). Nobody gets rid of a blog. The hosts just leave them there. Think of all the forgotten blogs. Some guy who died in a car accident may have a catalog of his previous three years just sitting there. Some kid who did really dumb shit in college may be broadcasting that stuff to his parents, to potential employers, to his kids.

Just musing.