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Top Ten Reasons To Give Up Blogging

Written by Richard MacManus / April 23, 2006 11:16 PM / 12 Comments

lettermanSo Russell Beattie has decided to call it a day. 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?

Here are the top ten reasons I could think of:

10. Your Alexa ranking is so low that it actually drops below the horizontal axis.

9. You are the number 1 result in Google for "blogorrhoea".

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 Crunchnotes, but he used the 'nofollow' tag.

7. Your commentary on new products and services is so bad that even web 2.0 PR companies refuse to email you.

6. Valleywag doesn't merely ignore you, it laughs about you behind your back on supr.c.ilio.us.

5. You once got a mention on Steve Rubel's blog, but in a post entitled 'How NOT to blog' (and he refused to link to you).

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.

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.

2.  Your Technorati rank has 8 figures in it.

1. According to Gabe Rivera's algorithms, tumbleweeds have a better chance of making it onto Tech.Memeorandum than your blog.

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  1. lol!

    Posted by: Alex Barnett | April 24, 2006 8:14 AM



  2. I got 6 out of 10 and I'm still blogging.

    Posted by: Randy Charles Morin | April 24, 2006 10:43 AM



  3. 11. – Too silly for supr.c.ilio.us.

    Posted by: ryan king | April 24, 2006 11:31 AM



  4. Ryan, I'll take silly over snarky any day ;-)

    Posted by: Richard MacManus | April 24, 2006 2:31 PM



  5. Traffic? what traffic? If I wanna see traffic I go hang out in big avenues during rush hours

    Posted by: Vidar | April 24, 2006 4:08 PM



  6. lol, love it

    Posted by: bloggaru | April 24, 2006 4:38 PM



  7. #12 - Four weeks into your Blog adventure and the best comment you've gotten so far was: "This is so great….I sure have a smart son!!" Of course posted by your Mom who has no idea in the world of what you do.

    Posted by: Jeremy Hanks | April 24, 2006 7:42 PM



  8. Here's another:

    #13: You've turned off your Askimet spam-blocking in a vain attempt to appear as though you have more readers.

    Posted by: DragonFlyEye | April 25, 2006 1:50 PM



  9. #7 made my day ;)

    Posted by: Leonid Mamchenkov | April 25, 2006 3:42 PM



  10. Very funny! #8 was my favorite

    Posted by: Chuck | April 25, 2006 6:14 PM



  11. lol, and yet i still blog :D

    Posted by: Simon | April 26, 2006 4:19 AM



  12. Very Funny

    Posted by: Robert | April 27, 2006 6:51 PM



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