---
title: "Top Ten Reasons To Give Up Blogging"
date: 2006-04-23
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Top Ten Reasons To Give Up Blogging

![letterman](https://web.archive.org/web/20110830223501im_/http://static.flickr.com/33/49793171_51d086bf5e_m.jpg)So Russell Beattie has decided to [call it a day](https://web.archive.org/web/20110830223501/http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008990.html). I admit his decision surprised me, because I’ve always enjoyed reading Russ’ well-informed commentary on the mobile Web. However it did make me wonder – what would cause other people to give up blogging?

Here are the top ten reasons I could think of:

10\. Your [Alexa](https://web.archive.org/web/20110830223501/http://www.alexa.com/) ranking is so low that it actually drops below the horizontal axis.

9\. You are the number 1 result in Google for “blogorrhoea”.

8\. You never get any links from A-listers, despite constantly linking to them. Well there was that one time when Mike Arrington linked to you in his diary blog [Crunchnotes](https://web.archive.org/web/20110830223501/http://www.crunchnotes.com/), but he used the [‘nofollow’ tag](https://web.archive.org/web/20110830223501/http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html).

7\. Your commentary on new products and services is so bad that even web 2.0 PR companies refuse to email you.

6\. [Valleywag](https://web.archive.org/web/20110830223501/http://valleywag.com/) doesn’t merely ignore you, it laughs about you behind your back on [supr.c.ilio.us](https://web.archive.org/web/20110830223501/http://supr.c.ilio.us/blog/).

5\. You once got a mention on [Steve Rubel’s blog](https://web.archive.org/web/20110830223501/http://www.micropersuasion.com/), but in a post entitled ‘How NOT to blog’ (and he refused to link to you).

4\. You once tried to be a Snarky blogger, but all the other snarky bloggers then turned snarky on you and you ended up converting to a new religion to recover.

3\. You’ve tried being controversial in order to gain attention, especially with a memorable post entitled ‘Why Web 2.0 is like the Hindenburg Blimp’, but nobody took the bait.

2\. Your Technorati rank has 8 figures in it.

1\. According to Gabe Rivera’s algorithms, tumbleweeds have a better chance of making it onto Tech.Memeorandum than your blog.

Photo: [wonderbread74](https://web.archive.org/web/20110830223501/http://www.flickr.com/photos/49502997377@N01/49793171/)

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_ten_reasons.php))*