Blog Life Spans and Complete Sentences

So what do you think is the average life span of a blog?

I would guess not very long at all. Maybe 2-3 months. Either people get bored reading it, or the author gets bored writing it, or your school forces you to stop writing it and threatens to take away your degree. Any way you look at it blogs are short lived creatures.

I had a blog in high school, and that one lasted for at least a year. But that blog was with someone else. Joint blogs I would say are much easier to maintain. Especially if the two writers compliment each other in some way. Otherwise blogs are difficult to keep up. Then again not all blogs are just boring personal journals, some are affiliated with a profession or have some sort of niche that the author, or authors are associated with. In that case those blogs can last for a much longer period. I am not really talking about those, I am more just talking about personal blogs through a blogging service such as Blogger or Live Journal. Those I would argue do not have a long life span.

How often do you hear people speak in complete sentences? I don't think it is as common as you think. People do it, they have the ability to, but alot of them seem not to. Especially actors and actresses, if you ever watch or listen to an interview with an actor alot of the time they'll give an answer and fade out and then just start a new thought without ever finishing their previous statement and just go on, it's like everything ends with an ellipsis and their answer is just one huge sentence with 19 ellipsi between every new thought. You'll also see this alot of times when people who don't know what they're trying to say are trying to make a point about something. They'll add a bunch of fillers like "umm" and "so" and "you know" and they'll go on and on and their thoughts get so convoluted that by the end YOUR not really sure what they said and they certainly don't know what they said and then everyone in the room is just left confused and frustrated at the kid in the fifth row who raises his hand every question and spouts off 13 different beginnings to a sentence and then never finishes any of them!

It's not that this kid doesn't make good points from time to time, he does, but the path to get to those points are filled with so much speech clutter and fillers and half thoughts that it's just painful to listen to. It doesn't help that he sits right in front of me so when I raise my hand and the professor points in my direction this boy automatically begins to talk (because he no doubt had his hand raised as well) and we are all forced to listen to him try to get his thoughts together enough to make one cognizant point.

Now no one is perfect, and it is sometimes hard to get your thoughts out there especially when nerves are involved. But would it be too much to ask to just put a little more thought into what you are trying to say before you begin to speak? I don't think it is.