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    <published>2006-04-24T06:16:51Z</published>
    <updated>2007-12-16T23:16:03Z</updated>
    <title>Top Ten Reasons To Give Up Blogging</title>
    <summary>So Russell Beattie has decided to call it a day. I admit his decision surprised me, because I&apos;ve always enjoyed reading Russ&apos; well-informed commentary on the mobile Web. However it did make me wonder - what would cause other people to give up blogging? Here are the top ten reasons I could think of: 10....</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Richard MacManus</name>
      <uri>http://www.readwriteweb.com</uri>
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      <![CDATA[<p><img alt="letterman" src="http://static.flickr.com/33/49793171_51d086bf5e_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" />So Russell Beattie has decided to <a href="http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008990.html">call
it a day</a>. I admit his decision surprised me, because I've always enjoyed
reading Russ' well-informed commentary on the mobile Web. However it did make me
wonder - what would cause other people to give up blogging?</p> 
<p>Here are the top ten
reasons I could think of:</p>
<p>10. Your <a href="http://www.alexa.com">Alexa</a> ranking is so low that it
actually drops below the horizontal axis.</p>
<p>9. You are the number 1 result in Google for &quot;blogorrhoea&quot;.</p>
<p>8. You never get any links from A-listers, despite constantly linking to
them. Well there was that one time when Mike Arrington linked to you in his
diary blog <a href="http://www.crunchnotes.com/">Crunchnotes</a>, but he used
the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html">'nofollow'
tag</a>.</p>
<p>7. Your commentary on new products and services is so bad that even web 2.0
PR companies refuse to email you.</p>
<p>6. <a href="http://valleywag.com/">Valleywag</a> doesn't merely ignore you,
it laughs about you behind your back on <a href="http://supr.c.ilio.us/blog/">supr.c.ilio.us</a>.</p>
<p>5. You once got a mention on <a href="http://www.micropersuasion.com">Steve
Rubel's blog</a>, but in a post entitled 'How NOT to blog' (and he refused to link to you).</p>
<p>4. You once tried to be a Snarky blogger, but all the other snarky bloggers
then turned snarky on you and you ended up converting to a new religion to
recover.</p>
<p>3. You've tried being controversial in order to gain attention, especially
with a memorable post entitled 'Why Web 2.0 is like the Hindenburg Blimp', but
nobody took the bait.</p>
<p>2.&nbsp; Your Technorati rank has 8 figures in it.</p>
<p>1. According to Gabe Rivera's algorithms, tumbleweeds have a better chance of
making it onto Tech.Memeorandum than your blog.</p>
<p>Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/49502997377@N01/49793171/">wonderbread74</a></p>]]>
      
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    <id>tag:72.47.210.69,2006://1.4829-comment:37266</id>
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    <title>Comment from Alex Barnett on 2006-04-24</title>
    <author>
        <name>Alex Barnett</name>
        <uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn/</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>lol!</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2006-04-24T15:14:07Z</published>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:72.47.210.69,2006://1.4829-comment:37267</id>
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    <title>Comment from Randy Charles Morin on 2006-04-24</title>
    <author>
        <name>Randy Charles Morin</name>
        <uri>http://www.kbcafe.com</uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I got 6 out of 10 and I'm still blogging.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2006-04-24T17:43:30Z</published>
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    <id>tag:72.47.210.69,2006://1.4829-comment:37268</id>
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    <title>Comment from ryan king on 2006-04-24</title>
    <author>
        <name>ryan king</name>
        <uri>http://theryanking.com/</uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>11. ‚Äì Too silly for  supr.c.ilio.us.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2006-04-24T18:31:07Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:72.47.210.69,2006://1.4829-comment:37269</id>
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    <title>Comment from Richard MacManus on 2006-04-24</title>
    <author>
        <name>Richard MacManus</name>
        <uri>http://readwriteweb.com</uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Ryan, I'll take silly over snarky any day ;-)</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2006-04-24T21:31:17Z</published>
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    <id>tag:72.47.210.69,2006://1.4829-comment:37270</id>
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    <title>Comment from Vidar on 2006-04-24</title>
    <author>
        <name>Vidar</name>
        <uri>http://vidar.xmgfree.com/site</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://vidar.xmgfree.com/site">
        <![CDATA[<p>Traffic? what traffic? If I wanna see traffic I go hang out in big avenues during rush hours</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2006-04-24T23:08:25Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:72.47.210.69,2006://1.4829-comment:37271</id>
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    <title>Comment from bloggaru on 2006-04-24</title>
    <author>
        <name>bloggaru</name>
        <uri>http://bloggaru.com</uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>lol, love it</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2006-04-24T23:38:41Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:72.47.210.69,2006://1.4829-comment:37272</id>
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    <title>Comment from Jeremy Hanks on 2006-04-24</title>
    <author>
        <name>Jeremy Hanks</name>
        <uri>http://www.jeremyhanks.com</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.jeremyhanks.com">
        <![CDATA[<p>#12 - Four weeks into your Blog adventure and the best comment you've gotten so far was:  "This is so great‚Ä¶.I sure have a smart son!!"   Of course posted by your Mom who has no idea in the world of what you do.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2006-04-25T02:42:09Z</published>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:72.47.210.69,2006://1.4829-comment:37273</id>
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    <title>Comment from DragonFlyEye on 2006-04-25</title>
    <author>
        <name>DragonFlyEye</name>
        <uri>http://dragonflyeye.net</uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Here's another:</p>

<p>#13: You've turned off your Askimet spam-blocking in a vain attempt to appear as though you have more readers.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2006-04-25T20:50:02Z</published>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:72.47.210.69,2006://1.4829-comment:37274</id>
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    <title>Comment from Leonid Mamchenkov on 2006-04-25</title>
    <author>
        <name>Leonid Mamchenkov</name>
        <uri>http://mamchenkov.net</uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>#7 made my day ;)</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2006-04-25T22:42:50Z</published>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:72.47.210.69,2006://1.4829-comment:37275</id>
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    <title>Comment from Chuck on 2006-04-25</title>
    <author>
        <name>Chuck</name>
        <uri>http://anoccasionalinterruption.wordpress.com</uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Very funny! #8 was my favorite</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2006-04-26T01:14:50Z</published>
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    <id>tag:72.47.210.69,2006://1.4829-comment:37276</id>
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    <title>Comment from Simon on 2006-04-26</title>
    <author>
        <name>Simon</name>
        <uri>http://www.photogabble.co.uk</uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>lol, and yet i still blog :D</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2006-04-26T11:19:37Z</published>
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    <id>tag:72.47.210.69,2006://1.4829-comment:37277</id>
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    <title>Comment from Robert on 2006-04-27</title>
    <author>
        <name>Robert</name>
        <uri>http://robertnelsononline.com/blog/</uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Very Funny</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2006-04-28T01:51:07Z</published>
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