Specifically, I've just spent an hour clicking random 'just updated' blogs on Blogger's front page (the one that shows if you're signed out), and reading them. Not the entire blog, of course; generally just the first post. (I left a few of you comments; if you tracked me back here, well, now you know how I found you.)
I didn't actually keep statistics, although I should have. I vaguely recall that:
- Probably about fifty percent of the titles that scroll by are obvious spam.
- Of the non-spam, about half of the blogs are in English; the great majority of the remainder are accounted for by Spanish, Portuguese, Tagalog, Chinese, and Japanese, although many non-English blogs have English titles. ("Applefish!")
- Most blogs have three or fewer posts and have been around less than a month. (I would tentatively hypothesize that blog survival times follow a Zipfian distribution.)
- Several separate blogs are entitled "My Mobile Blog"; from what I've seen of those, I assume they're a Blogger interface to some sort of photoTwitter.
- Astonishingly I was only once subjected to vanity erotica.
- As is usual for the Internet, most people can't spell. (I would also put forth the tentative hypothesis that the sociality of a blog correlates inversely with its grammatical correctness.
- The next thing you think of to say is always more clever.
... I hate to end a post the same way twice in a row, but now I want strawberries.
(Apparently this time I forgot to hit Publish Post, though.)
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