Knocking Down Blogs

Here's an interesting take on the popularity of blogs from The New York Times: Blog Bog and an E-Mail Pony Express. According to the article, most blogs are created, then abandoned, like the ones I created at Blogger and LiveJournal when I was first learning how to create a blog. Another interesting item is that the typical blogger is a a teenage girl who uses her blog to update her friends once or twice a month. The research that The Times refers to is limited to the popular blogging services; it doesn't take into account blogs kept on servers that use software like Movable Type, but the research does seem to knock down the myth that blogs are all the rage.