According to Gartner, there are more than 200 million abandoned blogs…evidence of the fact that it takes time, energy, interest, and valuable content to sustain a blog. In fact, Gartner predicts that blogs will peak at 100 million in 2007 and will eventually drop down to 30 million.

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