From time to time I’ve tempted to start a blog. There are several services which will host blogs, deviantart has a journal component that could service as a blog. I could even write on the free web space (10 mb) that comes with my email account. So it would be easy enough to do.

But do I really want to get started with something like this, knowing that I should ought to say something on my blog once in a while. Starting a project is easy. Finishing one is a lot harder. Recently I came across a comment on a report which I have not seen that considered the issue of blogging. The researchers first set out of determine how many blogs existed. They came up with a number in the high double digit millions. Then they looked at the number of those blogs that had been updated in the last six months. This, they figured indicated that a blog had been abandoned. That number was in the mid-signal digit millions. So something like 90+% of all blogs have been abandoned. I figure that by not starting I’m just anticipating its eventual abandonment.