Gigaom - Blogging is on the decline, according to a New York Times story published this weekend — citing research from the Pew Center’s Internet and American Life Project — and it is declining particularly among young people, who are using social networks such as Facebook instead...The NYT story notes that blogging among those aged 12 to 17 fell by half between 2006 and 2009 according to the Pew report, but among 18 to 33-year-olds it only dropped by two percentage points in 2010 from two years earlier — which isn’t exactly a huge decline. And among 34 to 45-year-olds, blogging activity rose by six percentage points. The story also admits that the Blogger platform, which is owned by Google, had fewer unique visitors in the U.S. in December than it had a year earlier (a 2-percent decline), but globally its traffic climbed by 9 percent to 323 million.
So what does this all mean? Pretty simple really, CW won the war. Word got out once I entered the blogging scene and inferior bloggers have been packing up shop left and right, don't even want to bother competing for hits with The Alt-Tab.
And you know what else this means? Less competition baby! BAM. I've been sitting around trying to think of ways to drum up more interest around here the last couple of months and then this story just falls right in my lap. Turns out I don't have to do squat, here I am busting my ass like 4 hours a day (allright like 3 of those are just me browsing the same sites I'd be browsing anyway, but it feels like work when you know you have to do it), while everyone else is just giving up.
And as I assume they've factored Pennypacker and The Maestro into those figures, deadbeats. The Maestro has a valid excuse, gambling columns are a bit easier to write during football season, he's going to contribute here and there for a few random occasions. Pennypacker on the other hand, came in talking all that smack and then never followed up once. What a pathetic loser. The mere fact that 50 Cent contributed more financial advice to this blog than he did should put him to shame. Thank god for the TV Doctor I guess.
With that said, I'd like to throw out the opportunity for others that may be intersted in becoming an Alt-Tab contributor. Serious applicants only, I don't need any Pennypackers promising the world and then coming up with excuse after excuse for not blogging. It takes like 15 minutes to write a decent blog, anyone interested should be willing to do so at least once a week. The pay is non-existant, and your boss will be insufferable, but since all the other blogs are apparently shutting their doors, I'm pretty much the only option you got. Feel free to e-mail me potential ideas you have for yourself or a sample blog you'd like me to run at TheAltTab@Gmail.com.
