Why blog?

Here is an NYT article about blogging, the motivations of why people blog and some current trends in the blogosphere.

In the article, "According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled."

Another quote from the article,"“There’s a joke within the blogging community that most blogs have an audience of one.”

So if you are reading this post, then this blog has more than an audience of one. And about updating The Night Canopy, my goal is to publish at least one post each day. Why do I do it? After all of the lofty aspirations I read about in the article I must confess, my answer is so simple I'm almost ashamed of it. I do it because it's fun.