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The study by the Perseus group on the sheer number of weblogs that have been abandoned is a bit disturbing, but it makes me wonder... How many of us have had free email accounts at one point or another which we've since abandoned? While these are slightly more private and not subject to be reported on like public blogs, I'd be willing to bet that the numbers would be a bit alarming.
What I propose is a "Weblog Expiration Policy", which would simply state, like Hotmail does, that if a blog has not been updated in some acceptable length of time (3 months?) that it would be deactivated. This will reduce clutter and get "tire kickers" to think before they march off into blog land.
Posted by Dana VanDen Heuvel at January 10, 2004 11:48 PM | TrackBackHere. Here. What about the directories? Blogorama still lists Cool Blogs that haven't been updated in over a year
Posted by: Piers at January 27, 2004 03:40 PM
For the average blog hosting company, dedicating time to tracking that kind of stuff is more expensive than just letting the data sit there.
Posted by: Chris at January 12, 2004 01:41 PM