{"id":389,"date":"2003-10-27T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-27T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/the_web\/typical_blog.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"typical_blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2003\/10\/27\/typical_blog","title":{"rendered":"Typical Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/TECH\/10\/26\/blogs\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> There are over 4 million blogs on the net, more than half run by teenagers. Research group Perseus says the typical blog is written by a teenage girl who updates it about twice a month. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> These sorts of &#8220;statistics&#8221; always strike me as suspect. Both the 4 million figure, and the &#8220;teenage girl&#8221; figure. The article goes on to claim: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> But unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigwhiteguy.com\">www.bigwhiteguy.com<\/a> most of them will be little seen, if not abandoned. At least two thirds of the blogs out there today have not been updated in months. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Does this sort of figure even make any sense? There are a lot of &#8220;abandoned&#8221; web sites out there, dead links, etc.. I&#8217;m not sure we can conclude anything from that. If a blog isn&#8217;t read and isn&#8217;t written, does it really exist? <\/p>\n<p> In my view, if CNN wants to capture the zeitgeist, they should focus on active blogs, both from the reader&#8217;s and writer&#8217;s points of view. Otherwise, it&#8217;s kind of like writing a story about how many newspapers there are out there that are no longer in print, and thus no one reads them. What use is that information? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN: There are over 4 million blogs on the net, more than half run by teenagers. Research group Perseus says the typical blog is written by a teenage girl who updates it about twice a month. These sorts of &#8220;statistics&#8221; always strike me as suspect. Both the 4 million figure, and the &#8220;teenage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}