In the introduction to the 100 Blogs article I linked to yesterday, PC World notes that Technorati is tracking some 70 million blogs.

This may be a conservative estimate, but I’d wager that about 50 million of those are abandoned blogs that haven’t been updated in months. Or years.

These blogs are like empty beer cans along the information superhighway (to trundle out a hoary metaphor). They make research more difficult. They clog search results. They squat there on countless servers, taking up space that could otherwise be used by some of the 120,000 blogs that will spring up today, 100,000 of which will be abandoned by the new year.

Maybe it’s time for a massive “clean up the blogosphere” effort.

This entry was posted on Monday, July 2nd, 2007 at 8:54 am and is filed under Internet Stuff.