http://learningcomputation.com/blog/2007/03/end-of-blogging.html There exist problems, intractable to decide, yet easy to check. Fri, 07 May 2010 22:25:51 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://learningcomputation.com/blog/2007/03/end-of-blogging.html/comment-page-1#comment-51 Kurt Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:20:03 +0000 http://learningcomputation.wordpress.com/2007/03/26/the-end-of-blogging#comment-51 Hi foxy. I tried to take a closer look at your comment to see what happened to the anchor tag, and realized that Blogger doesn't seem to provide any edit capability on comments. (Probably just as well, seeing as how it could lead to certain types of mischief.) I'll have to check out your < HREF="http://greedygreedyalgorithms.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">Greedy, Greedy Algorithms<> site.I'm not sure if there's any way you could reliably calculate the lifespan of a blog. If the blog contains a complete archive, then you could use that. You could try creating a script to automate the process, although it would be a pain to properly handle all the variations on how archive files could be stored and dated. And for blogs that don't have complete archives, you'd get erroneous results. Of course, once a blog is deleted, you're out of luck. I imagine that Gartner got its data second hand from sites like Blogger and WordPress, that would have internally maintained statistics on when websites are created or deleted. Bloggers that use their own domains and local copies of software probably get excluded from the stats, but they would be a minority of bloggers anyway. Hi foxy. I tried to take a closer look at your comment to see what happened to the anchor tag, and realized that Blogger doesn’t seem to provide any edit capability on comments. (Probably just as well, seeing as how it could lead to certain types of mischief.) I’ll have to check out your < HREF="http://greedygreedyalgorithms.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">Greedy, Greedy Algorithms<> site.I’m not sure if there’s any way you could reliably calculate the lifespan of a blog. If the blog contains a complete archive, then you could use that. You could try creating a script to automate the process, although it would be a pain to properly handle all the variations on how archive files could be stored and dated. And for blogs that don’t have complete archives, you’d get erroneous results. Of course, once a blog is deleted, you’re out of luck. I imagine that Gartner got its data second hand from sites like Blogger and WordPress, that would have internally maintained statistics on when websites are created or deleted. Bloggers that use their own domains and local copies of software probably get excluded from the stats, but they would be a minority of bloggers anyway.

]]> http://learningcomputation.com/blog/2007/03/end-of-blogging.html/comment-page-1#comment-52 Foxy Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:40:19 +0000 http://learningcomputation.wordpress.com/2007/03/26/the-end-of-blogging#comment-52 Stupid anchor tags... Stupid anchor tags…

]]> http://learningcomputation.com/blog/2007/03/end-of-blogging.html/comment-page-1#comment-53 Foxy Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:39:51 +0000 http://learningcomputation.wordpress.com/2007/03/26/the-end-of-blogging#comment-53 Tyler and I are now sort of joint blogging at < HREF="http://greedygreedyalgorithms.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow"/> if you're interested.Question - how would you go about calculating the 'lifespan' of a blog? Where would you get that information? Tyler and I are now sort of joint blogging at < HREF="http://greedygreedyalgorithms.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow"/> if you’re interested.Question – how would you go about calculating the ‘lifespan’ of a blog? Where would you get that information?

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