[…] many people start blogs with lofty aspirations — to build an audience and leave their day job, to land a book deal, or simply to share their genius with the world. Getting started is easy, since all it takes to maintain a blog is a little time and inspiration. So why do blogs have a higher failure rate than restaurants?

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.

Most people just don’t have that much (interesting things) to say for a full-blown blog. Even micro-blogging services like Twitter — which is far easier to update and requires less thoughts — get abandoned by most people after a month or so. But, whatever… The barrier to entry in blogging is so low, everybody in the world should try it once in their lives