A few people I know stopped publishing their blogs. Eric Burke even went so far as to remove his blog from the internet (after a "I'm going to remove it" next-to-last post).
As a result, some of the links in my blogroll become stale. So I went ahead and cleaned it up yesterday. The number of feeds went from almost 300 down to 91. If you are watching the number of subcribers to your feed from Bloglines or NetNewsGear, and see it being decremented, that's me unsubscribing from your feed.
I unsubscribed from the feeds that are gone or sparingly published. And I also unsubscribed from the feeds that I'm no longer interested in. Just as Eric felt it right to remove a blog that he's not motivated to continue to publish, I have overcome the tendency to not unsubscribe from less-than-frequently published feeds to not hurt the author's feelings. (If you've been meaning to delete your blog, but are thinking "What about all my subscribers?" There is one less subscriber for you to worry about today.)
Given that this blog was started after Eric told me all about blogging, Eric's departure from blogging also made me reflect a bit about the future of this blog. And here's what I am certain:
Like everything else, this blog won't last forever
I'm still motivated to write a few times a week, so I'll continue to write
I have found (as a few others have found) a few of my past entries useful. So I'll try to keep this blog up for as long as I can support it.
I'll keep an eye on what the smart people are doing, and jump to that if I can emulate it.
Given my tendency to be extremely retro (do a Google image search for "Windows 3.1", and you will find my blog at the number one spot), I'll probably be among the last few bloggers remaining when everyone else have moved on.
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