Apparently something like 95% of all the Blogs out there are considered dead, or abandoned, and we’re not even talking about the ones that only contain posts regarding someone’s dog or cat or sock puppet. And why do we call these ‘blogs’ as though that bestows some special significance on them? Websites. 95% of all websites created to get rich off of Google Ads are considered dead. Welcome to the Internet super landfill.

Of course how such a statistic is compiled is a bit of a mystery, in relatively the same vein as the monthly unemployment rate. How do we know if a website is truly dead, dying, or if its author is simply awaiting a new source of mind altering stimulants before getting back down to business? How do you measure the intention of the owner, and why so harsh as to call them dead if they take a break for a while? Hell, let’s encourage this sort of behavior. How about a national Do-Not-Blog (-about-your-friggin-gerbil/rash/wart/etc.) Day?

Where is the statistic tracking the rate at which the Internet is filling up and overflowing with purely redundant crap? If a page contains more than 75% of the same text as another existing page then it gets rejected and the sap who posted it gets his pinky toe smacked with a hammer. Photographs should be examined and analyzed and compared and if two are determined to be basically the same image then only one gets posted. Flickr could be run off an old server with a 386 processor running Windows 3.1 if we put this idea to work.

Internet Bandwidth Conservationism. The time has come. Go Green – No, Go DARK. Think before you post. Edit twice, save a byte! There is an entire bumper sticker industry waiting to happen right here in this paragraph!

Ok, sorry, I’m done. Had to let that out. I feel better now. Yes I know the way back to my padded cell.