Just read John Dvorak’s op-ed piece in PCMagazine, Co-opting the Future, in which he makes some interesting stats on the demise of blogs… well, not the demise, exactly, but there is definitely a slow-down. We all knew it was a fad, didn’t we? But after the hype, a “good thing” generally settles down to an acceptable level of usage.

Anyway, the article inspired me enough to write this … and any excuse to talk about me and my website.

I started writing my thoughts on my web page over 5 years ago… long before the advent of “blogs.” However, using blogging software has made it considerably easier to maintain my site, so before I was posting once or twice a month, I now post… er, more. Sometimes three times a month.

I certainly write in cycles, well, I actually write on the computer, but I meant to say that there are times that I write more and sometimes less. But that doesn’t mean that my site is dead. And if I stop, that doesn’t change my thoughts, as my thoughts are timeless and as valid now as they will be when they are found on a primitive CD technology buried in my time capsule.

That’s right, in the future, archeologists with huge cranial bulges and prehensile tails will unearth Site #25923.2342 and find my crude card board box with in precious contents, and say, “Oooh… shiny thing. Pass it to me, Thrackazog!”

But I digress.

Dvorak mentions a survey that found, “Over 132,000 blogs are abandoned after a year of constant updating.” I can believe that. Writing is painful work and difficult to come up with ideas. I have found blogs where people attempt to be funny, or deep, or technologically useful, and have a hard time keeping up the facade.

So, I don’t pretend to even have an agenda. I just write whatever my readership wants to read. Which brings up another point Dvorak states that “most blogs have an audience of about 12 readers.” Twelve? Really? That’s ten more than I thought. OK, the rest of you need to introduce yourselves. And yes, I do hope my mother isn’t among you.

I concur with Dvorak’s fear of “faux blogs.” You know, when “professional bloggers working for large media conglomerates [spew] the same measured news and opinions we’ve always had.” But still, I like the fact that anyone can publish to the world, and that search engines will link, and the therapy that is a diary can work on us all.

But just because it is on a blog doesn’t mean it is truth… unless it is mine.