The reported Fallacy writes "Douglas Quenqua reports in the NY Times that according to regulation to a 2008 survey only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days meaning that "95 percent of blogs being basically abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled." Richard Jalichandra, chief official of Technorati, said that at any given time there are 7 million to 10 million active blogs on the Internet, but it's like enough between 50,000 and 100,000 blogs that are generating most of the page views. "There's a joke within the blogging brotherhood that most blogs have an audition of one." Many people who think blogging is a fast path to numbers* independence also find themselves discouraged. "I did some Craigslist postings to advertise it, and I very quickly got an audition of about 50,000 viewers a month," says Matt Goodman, an pitch administrator in Atlanta who had no trouble attracting an audition to his site, Things My Dog Ate, leading to some small public relations deals. "I think I made about $20 from readers clicking on the ads.""

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