Every Second I Become More Irrelevant

According to a study out by a blog tracking site called Technorati, there is a new weblog started every second. You can check it out here if you're interested. I have to admit, the feelings that rushed through my body, the excitement of starting a blog and the hope that maybe this would create the opportunity for a paid writing gig came crashing down rather resoundingly after seeing this today. So I asked myself, does this now make my blog an exercise in irrelevance more than one of futility? I can only take heart in the knowledge that less than half of the blogs currently in existence are considered active (updates within the last three months) and only thirteen percent are updated weekly or more. If nothing else, I can always claim to have one of the most active blogs on the internet that no one reads. A quick search on Google turned up no awards of this nature anywhere within the reach of its metacrawling robots. I may have to create the award myself, then after careful consideration nominate this site as the first recipient. The award would be proudly be displayed on my site and I would brag to both of my friends about it. I bet my one friend would be so impressed that he'd totally unclog and flush so I wouldn't have to go to the bathroom in garbage bags anymore. Then maybe my other friend wouldn't be so dead, either, and I can dig her up from the backyard. We could play fetch for hours and go to the bathroom whenever we wanted without ever having to worry about whether we tied the bag tight enough that we didn't have to worry about it spilling all over the bathroom linoleum.

With that in mind and a stiff upper lip, I will blog on.