So it's not just me, then..

... that often falls short of updating my blog regularly? 

(above image borrowed from blog.globalgiving.com/)

According to this article in the in the New York Times (Blogs Falling in an Empty Forest), "only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs [that Technorati] tracks had been updated in the past 120 days".  That's about 5%.

All I can think is, phew! So I don't suck as much as I thought I did at keeping up with my blog, or at least, I am not alone in my suckage. At least I've had some kind of a blog since 2005.

I also found it interesting how many people's motivation for starting blogs is getting a book deal or a bunch of money.  I mean, don't get me wrong, I think it's pretty cool when people do get book deals after launching a particularly funny, prolific blog (such as StuffWhitePeopleLike.com or Elyse Sewell's Live Journal), but to set out at the onset writing a blog just so that you get a book deal - well, that seems a little arrogant.  Or setting out to write a blog that makes you at least $4000/month - also kind of lame.

Maybe I'm too much of a purist.  Usually people build huge blog followings because they are great at expressing themselves and have something interesting to say.  Not because they follow some formula guranteed to get them a book deal.

This did make me think that I should try to articulate my reasons for writing a blog - so here goes.

My motiviation for blogging:

- Stay connected with friends and family

- Practice writing

- Creative outlet

- FAME and GLORY! (just kiddin)