Come my friend let’s sit awhile
We’ll share a joke; We’ll share a smile
And before our visit is marked through
We’ll share what’s new with me; what’s new with you.
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Posted By ê¿ê on June 12th, 2008
Image by Luiz Henrique Assunção via Flickr
Have you been E-dropping through your list of blogs and realize that a bunch of them have no updated content in months?
Don’t you wonder what happened to them?
Did they just get bored with their blog and abandon it? Did they get writer’s block and can’t think of anything new/witty/scathing to say? Did something terrible happen? Are they sick, in prison, on vacation, involved in a work or school project, having an affair, taking care of a sick relative? Did their computer die?
Did THEY die?
Have you taken steps to ensure that if something happens to you, your blog continues, or has some kind of updated content added to it periodically?
Have you listed your blog in your will?
I mean, many of us have blogs that have some real value to them, so is it so far fetched to list your blog as an asset in your will and bequeath it to someone who will cherish it as much as you have or who will dispose of it in a humane manner?
Would you buy John Chow’s blog if (GOD FORBID!) something happened to him and his executor put his blog on the auction block? Or Shoemoney’s blog? Or Problogger’s blog? What about IHAZCHEEZEBURGERS?
Which blog would you like to buy if it became available?
And then there is the question of whether you could sustain the readership of that blog if you took it over.
While I might be able to write about making money blogging, could I do as good a job as those “A” listers previously mentioned? Probably not. But then again, with my ability to write scintillating prose, perhaps I would take their blog to a whole new level.
Yeah……I know…..in my dreams…..
Well, gotta call my attorney and get him to add my blogs in my will. Who knows, maybe the grandkids will want the musty old things!
ê¿ê
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I was just noticing the same thing morning about seemingly abandoned blogs. Gonna have to update my blogroll today to include more interesting sites that are updated fairly often. I start dropping from that list and I take extra time to read those particular blogs so it’s boring when i have several who don’t update.
As for willing my blog, my kids might update it but that’d be about it. We’ll see though, maybe if i ever start making anything off it i’ll consider it.
Good and provoking thought of the idea. Hm.. who will succeed my blog if something happens to me? Can’t find any suitable candidate at the moment. Guess each one of our blogs is uniquely us. It reflects our character through the way we write.
It’s sad that some authors don’t update their blogs regularly. I hope to update mine everyday but I slack on the other two..
Guilty as charged.
I wonder how some people manage 10 blogs??
Hang out for long enough, and some actually do come back, and come back long. All that is needed is a comment, Digg or Stumble to get a bloggers attention. Ironic I am writing this (comment on an article about dead blogs, and how simple things can re-motivate a blogger. crazy huh?) when the last line always reads…
Dugg & Stumbled.
I never really thought about these things. If anything ever happens to me, I suppose I would want my son to have my blog because it really is my online journal. What would someone want with mine? ooohhh…what if my blog got into some different hands and they turn it into a sick porn site? Great…now I’ll have nightmares.
Gandy — we can worry about stuff like that, but why borrow trouble (as my granny used to say). Just tell your son to delete it if he doesn’t want to continue it. I keep hounding my mother to record her stories about growing up in the 20’s and 30’s. She’s done a couple, but I know there are dozens that are left unrecorded. When she’s gone, no one will be able to tell them to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Maybe I’m crazy, but I truly think it’s a legacy that will be missed.
Guy — thanks ever so much for the D&S! That was way cool of you to do!
Sherxr — I don’t think it’s truly necessary to update daily – that’s really nice if you can, though. But, I came across a couple of blogs today that hadn’t had anything new added since last November! That’s a shame — why don’t you just take it down?
Nessa — In your case and mine, where we don’t make money (or not enough to count), our blogs are truly the modern diary that will someday give our grandchildren and on a glimpse into what life was like “back in the days”
ê¿ê
That’s an awfully interesting question to ask. I think if anything, the blogs would just die out, expire, etc. Though you do have to wonder about the blogs that haven’t been updated in a long time. Well, the ones that are hosted and paid for, those would eventually go away, but I wonder what happens to the free ones? I know that on Xanga, there are still a million accounts that haven’t been updated or accessed in years, yet, they’re still up.
Maybe for us, that’s what will happen to? It will just die out from not being paid, etc. At least, that’s what I assume anyway. My parents, assuming that I’d die before them – as sad as that may sound, don’t know that my blog exists and I doubt my sister will take it over.