A Blog, Writing About CNN, Writing About a Blog

Spotted on cnn.com, an article about a blog. Unremarkable, I suppose — I think even cnn.com has been there before. But of interest, at the end of the article:

There are over 4 million blogs on the net, more than half run by teenagers. Research group Perseus says the typical blog is written by a teenage girl who updates it about twice a month.

...Even AOL is hosting web logs, a sign that this trend has hit the big time.

There are predictions the net will be littered with 5 million blogs by the end of the year.

But unlike www.bigwhiteguy.com most of them will be little seen, if not abandoned. At least two thirds of the blogs out there today have not been updated in months.

Now, aside from the lack of the usual "AOL and CNN are the same company" disclaimer, relatively unremarkable. Although — the average blog is written by teenage girls? I hope none of ya'll whom I read regularly are foolin' me that way.

I especially like the comment about the net being "littered" by blogs, and I have to agree on the "not updated" line. Case in point: of the basically now-defunct B.O.B.B., two blogs have disappeared, two have infrequent updates, one features new posts almost daily, and then there's, well, this blog, whose author would post more often if he had a little more privacy at work. It's like they expect me to actually be productive or something!!