Daa Daa Dada Daa Dada dada dada "Funeral tune"

As weblogs proliferated earlier this decade, Andy Warhol's famous aphorism was modified to read, "In the future, everyone will be famous to 15 people." Now it looks like Warhol was right after all: Thanks to widespread blog burnout, everyone will be famous to 15 people for 15 minutes. (Ted Olson posted 9/25/2007 08:57AM on his blog about the Death of Blogs)

I like going back and looking at what I blogged about this semester. I even like reading what I wrote in a blog I created for a class in 2006. In a way, it reminds me of a diary I kept for a couple of months when I was 11. Every few years, I get it out and am mildly amused about the topics which were important to me then. So you might think I would continue this blog simply for my own gratification. WRONG!

I just have too many other things on my plate.

So my blog will die a timely end of semester death. I will blog no more. Just like the other 200 million people which have already stopped writing their blogs.

“Gartner analyst Daryl Plummer said the reason for the leveling off in blogging was due to the fact that most people who would ever start a web blog had already done so. He said those who loved blogging were committed to keeping it up, while others had become bored and moved on.”

Not all blogs are dead or dying. Blog aggregator Technorati estimates that 3 million new blogs are launched every month. The site's tongue-in-cheek slogan: "Zillions of photos, videos, blogs, and more. Some of them have to be good."

I enjoyed reading other classmates’ blogs and they were good. It helped me learn about them and their concerns. In fact, in the long run, it was a better device than the mandatory introductory spiel we had to give as part of the first class.

So while I am not bored, I am definitely moving on. I have other technology fishes to fry in my library career.