Yes folks, that’s right. Australian The Sunday Times has the story this morning and it has proof: Lindsay Lohan didn’t update her blog since October 2003. Although she stopped blogging it seems like she was an early adopter. Nice one, Lindsay. 
Well, Lindsay is not the only proof presented by The Sunday Times. There is even the brand new Gartner study from, erm, December 2006 predicting blogging was peaking this year. So what?
Even if analysts were right (did they count Vox, LiveJournal, MySpace,… blogs, btw?), will anything change in the online world? Does it really matter if blogs laid dormant, if numbers dwindled away? People are on the web and no one will turn back the wheel. They are voicing their opinions on blogs, posting pics on Flickr, chat with friends on MySpace, and Twitter is buzzing already. Even The Sunday Times is correct here:
Research suggests that most ghost blogs are abandoned simply because their authors run out of things to say, have not got the time to write or have moved on to more exciting internet trends, such as posting home videos on YouTube or collecting new friends on MySpace.
So do we need all those blogs anyway? The good ones will stay (probably not this one, I guess) as they have proved to be an alternative to traditional media already. Often they break news earlier and even do some investigative journalism, something traditional media claimed to be its own realm. Blogs will stay in one way or another.
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