[tomkarlo]

95% of just about everything people try out gets abandoned - relationships, hobbies, jobs. We all have a limited capacity for what we can spend time on in our lives. The only difference with blogs is that (at least for the free ones like blogger/tumblr/posterous), there's no incentive to take them down and they don't decay / disappear on their own.

It's like wondering why 95% of dates don't lead to marriage.

[roc]

Exactly. Imagine for a moment how many novels started were never finished. How many brushes were left to collect dust after a few paintings. Or ab-rollers that never produced any six-pack abs. Or gardens abandoned after a couple salads.

The more amazing number here, in my opinion, is that 5% of blogs stick around. That seems incredibly high for a broadly popular pursuit. Even a 1% follow-through would strike me as a far better success rate than most common human endeavors.