It seems as though in May, The Huffington Post pulled in 36.6 million unique visitors from the U.S., compared to 35.5 for The New York Times.

This seems an amazing milestone for The Huffington Post, as the site is only really known about in the USA. Im expecting some large International expansions in the coming months and years.

• Thousands of Huffington Post Bloggers Want Their Share of the Sale Price! – February 10, 2011
• 95 percent of Blogs are Abandoned – June 9, 2009

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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.

But why is this happening? Why people just suddenly looses motivation to write or share experiences, information, articles, etc? The article also remarks that people usually confuse the idea of blogging as a fast way to financial independence and rapidly find themselves discouraged.

But, besides the possible financial disappointment, is it twitter related to this? In a small way, I think.

Over an year ago (maybe more) when I started to hear about Twitter I found this short comic (from Gapingvoid), metioned also on an old post of mine about Twitter:

For some cases, I’m sure this is a very realistic comic. After all, Twitter it is a way of micro blogging, share information and (current) experiences. And it is easier and simpler to keep updated your Twitter account instead of your blog. It is the same? Absolutely not.

Blogging is so much richer, states as a permanent document (Twitter also does, but not so friendly to review them), or even as your historical experience in a given subject. It’s all about sharing: information, opinions, expertiece, experiences, etc etc.

My take? Never stop blogging.

• How to Set Goals for your Blog – March 31, 2011
• 50 Ways to Promote Your Blog – February 6, 2011
• How to Fix the FeedBurner Counter Problem – July 25, 2010
• Building your Own Arcade Cabinet (shared) – June 14, 2009
• Women in the Video Game Industry – October 25, 2011

95 percent of Blogs are Abandoned originally appeared on: Crenk
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