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TechnoGuyRob · 11-21-2007, 09:32 AM

Hi everyone!

I started reading Pavlina's blog about a year and a half ago, but as of the past 8 months I've been real busy with school and so forth, and pretty much have given up on the internet except for e-mail and research.

I went to Alexa.com (a site that shows internet traffic) and noticed this:

Traffic Details for: joelonsoftware.com/

I checked out a few other good bloggers as well, and saw the same phenomenon everywhere: everyone spiked out in late 2006, and now seems to be fading into obscurity. Anyone know why this happened? What's going on here? This seems so weird! I've also noticed the downward trend in Technorati's traffic, so is it just that the golden age of blogging has passed?

Any clues?

11-21-2007, 09:32 AM	#1 (permalink)
TechnoGuyRob Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Illinois Posts: 149	What happened to the good bloggers? (Internet traffic) Hi everyone! I started reading Pavlina's blog about a year and a half ago, but as of the past 8 months I've been real busy with school and so forth, and pretty much have given up on the internet except for e-mail and research. I went to Alexa.com (a site that shows internet traffic) and noticed this: Traffic Details for: joelonsoftware.com/ I checked out a few other good bloggers as well, and saw the same phenomenon everywhere: everyone spiked out in late 2006, and now seems to be fading into obscurity. Anyone know why this happened? What's going on here? This seems so weird! I've also noticed the downward trend in Technorati's traffic, so is it just that the golden age of blogging has passed? Any clues?