[blogging on valium] across the sphere

Having just done the rounds of my blogrolls, I left the main roll till last and so reached Mark Wadsworth who had this:

This is my first post since 8.32 Friday morning. It seems like weeks. Maybe I'm addicted or something.

That just confirms to me something I've noticed for a few days - very few are blogging. Of those who are, some seem to be going through the motions but there are precious few who are really going for it in the way regular bloggers do. Some were writing curt little posts.

Not only that, not all that many were visiting. When people drop off visiting me, my first reaction is, "Oh dear, what have I done to offend now?" My second reaction is, "Oh dear, perhaps I should be visiting more."

This is what I have now done and can say that very few seem to be visiting anyone.

Now, this might be down to the last warm weather of summer, the last chance to have time away. It might be down to the American Labor Day weekend and our bank holiday sort of continuing on into the next weekend. It could be all these things.

Too early to say it's anything to do with the blogosphere as a whole although I've been reading some stories about this.