95% of all blogs are abandoned

Everybody is so busy these days. It is rush, rush, rush this, Hurry, Hurry, hurry, that. Now this is perfect for the nudist resort industry as nudist resorts are the perfect way for people to de-stress and to relax. Much it makes it hard to find time to do fun things like posting on blogs.

Trying to maintain a blog is difficult. Here it is 10pm and this is my first chance all day to write on this blog. And I have missed almost a whole week because we have been so busy at our resort.

Well the NY Times just came out with an article saying 95% of all blogs that are started are abandoned. On this blog, my no nudity blog, I have almost 350 posts.

I hope everyone has been enjoying what I post. I always try to find interesting things that you don't always find on other nudist blogs. And of course I write about our nudist resort The Terra Cotta Inn.

Here is the story:
" Blogs Falling in an Empty Forest

“HI, I’m Judy Nichols. Welcome to my rant.”

...Thus was born Rantings of a Crazed Soccer Mom, the blog of a stay-at-home mother and murder-mystery writer from Wilmington, N.C. Mrs. Nichols, 52, put up her first post in late 2004, serving up a litany of gripes...

The post generated no comments.

Today, Mrs. Nichols speaks about her blog as if it were a diet or half-finished novel. “I’m going to get back to it,” she swears. Her last entry, in December of last year, was curt and none too profound...

Like Mrs. Nichols, many people start blogs with lofty aspirations...- Getting started is easy, since all it takes to maintain a blog is a little time and inspiration. So why do blogs have a higher failure rate than restaurants?

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...

Judging from conversations with retired bloggers, many of the orphans were cast aside by people who had assumed that once they started blogging, the world would beat a path to their digital door.

“I was always hoping more people would read it, and it would get a lot of comments,” Mrs. Nichols said recently by telephone, sounding a little betrayed. “Every once in a while I would see this thing on TV about some mommy blogger making $4,000 a month, and thought, ‘I would like that.’ ”

Not all fallow blogs die from lack of reader interest. Some bloggers find themselves too busy — ...Others graduate to more immediate formats, like Twitter and Facebook. And a few — gasp — actually decide to reclaim some smidgen of personal privacy.

...“The Internet is different now,” she said over a cup of tea in Midtown. “I was too Web 1.0. You want to be anonymous, you want to write, like, long entries, and no one wants to read that stuff.”

Richard Jalichandra, chief executive of Technorati, said that at any given time there are 7 million to 10 million active blogs on the Internet, but “it’s probably between 50,000 and 100,000 blogs that are generating most of the page views.” He added, “There’s a joke within the blogging community that most blogs have an audience of one.”

...Many people who think blogging is a fast path to financial independence also find themselves discouraged. Matt Goodman, an advertising executive in Atlanta, had no trouble attracting an audience to his self-explanatory site, Things My Dog Ate, which included tales of his foxhound, Watson, eating remote controls, a wig and a $400 pair of Prada shoes.

... “I think I made about $20” from readers clicking on the ads. He last updated the site in November.

Mr. Jalichandra of Technorati — a blogger himself — also points out that some retired bloggers have merely found new platforms. “Some of that activity has gone to Facebook and MySpace, and obviously Twitter is a new phenomenon,” he said..."

Luckily I have had many guests tell me they enjoy my blog and I have had many people tell me how much money they have saved flying to our resort because I post airfare sales.

It is hard keeping up a blog. But, I intend to do so for many more years.

And if you are looking for a great place to vacation this summer, give us a call at 800-786-6938. We are the most mainstream clothing optional resort in the US and are perfect for couples trying topless or nude sunbathing for the first time.

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We hope to see you soon in sunny Palm Springs!