As part of a class project I’ve been reading the Online-News mailing list and responding to some of the issues and discussion brought up there.
More on blogs this week. Online journalism seems to be obsessed with blogs anymore, which is annoying, because some really good IA discussions go on here otherwise. Someone posted a study that provoked a ton of response: “Perseus estimates there are 4.12 million blogs on eight hosting services. But the research company estimated that 66% – 2.72 million – haven’t been updated in two months and that 1.09 million haven’t been updated since the first day. The average duration for an abandoned blog was 126 days, according to the survey of 3,634 blogs.”
http://www.mediapost.com/dtls_dsp_news.cfm?newsId=221430
None of this is too surprising, and some argued whether or not any bloggers are important at all.