Welcome To The 95th Percentile!

I didn't pay much attention to the NYT article last week that ran under the headline Blogs Falling in an Empty Forest, after all how interesting or informative can something in the dead tree media about the new media be?

Then via new media, bloggasm to be precise, I caught this nugget of data in the aforementioned article...

According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled.

Some people are upset with the times and see this piece as blog bashing. Not me. I think that the New York Times, the paper of record with all the news that's fit to print, has just placed Coppola Comments in the top 5% of all blogs on the internet. Welcome to the rarefied air up here readers.

You gotta love the internet.