And now... "Ghost Blogs!"

The Internet’s fastest growing graveyard has an estimated 200 tombstones – dead blogs, called “Ghost Blogs!”

Blogging, having peaked in October 2006, when 100,000 new blogs were being created each day, is now on a precipitous slide, predicted by Gartner research to level out at 100 million. Other analysts predict a low of 30 million.

What started as perhaps the best tool for self-expression and publishing on the Internet, may be dying for the simple reason that their authors have run out of things to say. Others may neither have the time nor the inclination to write anymore. And as usual, the trendy crowd may have moved on to posting home videos on YouTube or to social networking on sites like MySpace where the response from other users is way faster.

But here lies the opportunity for serious bloggers who can post good content. It will be easier to be ‘heard’ over the now diminishing ‘noise.’

Remember the hit song, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going?”

Long live the Blog!