[GulliverSwift]

Problem is, though, that there are _no one_ many bloggers out there that no one has time to read them all. Most of their sites are disorganized messes with almost all of the content on one page that is 5 miles long.

So, the diarists may influence the people they happen to direct readers to but that's still questionable since a lot of the bloggers don't even have the ability to look at their server logs to check referrers.

IMHO discussion forums like FR, Lucianne, Fark.com are far more efficient uses of group resources. They are also so much better organized and easier to search.

I have no interest in starting a blog when I have FR here for me. I don't have to worry about paying for it, updating it with useless quota postings. If I want to share my thoughts, I can post a vanity essay. If I just want to put my two bits in, I post on a thread.

Blogs are a waste of time on both the authors' and readers' parts, IMO.

[GulliverSwift]

Oops: should say:

"Problem is, though, that there are so many bloggers out there that _no one_ has time to read them all. Most of their sites are disorganized messes with almost all of the content on one page that is 5 miles long.