I had gotten behind on my Blogroll.  Admittedly, I was shocked at exactly how behind I had gotten.  Probably half of the Blogroll that appeared under the links tab (until I moved them to the sidebar and placed other things on the Links page) were pointing to blogs that either hadn’t been touched in more than six months or had been deleted completely.
Where do bloggers go when they stop blogging?  Especially if they have developed any kind of following?  A few did make it clear in a final post that it was the final post.  But I noticed that the majority of stifled blogs just seemed to stop cold without warning.  Did something happen to the people?  Was there some catastrophe in their personal lives that forced them out of regular blogging?
Did they just lose interest so completely that they didn’t even find themselves able to work up enough will to just say goodbye?
Could they have been so convinced that nobody — not one single person — was interested enough in what they had to say that it was an exercise in futility?
It’s kind of sad in a way, as if “the little guy” suddenly had a shining moment of clarity in which he realized he was only “the little guy,” would never be “the big guy” and just retreated.
Or maybe that didn’t have anything to do with it at all.
Who knows?  Only those bloggers, I guess, who chose not to explain.
In any case, the updated Blogroll is now on the sidebar, where it belongs, and will likely be updated much more frequently now that I will actually be seeing it every day.  If you notice any bad links, please click the Contact tab at the top of the page and let me know.  Same procedure if you’d like to be linked.
