Something about this one really grabs me. It's almost like a pastel drawing instead of a photo. And it makes a lovely background on the monitor, if you like this sort of thing, and I do.
Moving along here, I somehow got interested this morning in the question 'how many blogs are there worldwide?' - and for answers, I got a lot of definite maybes, ranging from statistics too old to be really relevant, to 'guesstimates' ranging from sixty to seventy-two millions or so. Evidently, counting all of us sweaty-palmed, beady-eyed, pseudonymously-named blogosphere polluters has proven to be an almost impossible task. That's partly because many of us are seemingly 'here today, gone tomorrow' and of all the blogs started, only 21% are classified as 'active', which is defined as meaning those that have been updated at least once within the past 90 days. The 21% who are active however are a vibrant and prolific bunch of babblers, and we're doing our best to hold our own for the rest of the sixty or seventy-two millions who are obviously goofing off, lost interest, or are too lazy to finish what they've started.
If you've got time for some relatively heavy reading on this subject, there's an annual report about it on Technorati at:- http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/ where you can get much more detail. And if you have a blog, and you'd like to know how it ranks in the world's pecking order of blogs, Amazon's Alexa - The Web Information Company, can tell you, and they even have a Widget for it that you can put on your blog, just by copying their code and pasting it into your main page. Alexa can be found here and on the right side of their page you'll see something about the Widget. Enjoy your day, everyone.
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