Ertblog was a year old on New Year’s Day. Sorry you didn’t get invited to the party!

Regular readers may have noticed that Ertblog lost its voice in December: blame a holiday, the lurgy and Christmas. My new year’s resolution is to get back into the blogging habit. It’s amazing how easy it is to get out of the routine of posting. So it’s hardly surprising that many bloggers run out of steam and abandoned their creations. To blog, you need time to reflect and think, as Stuart Bruce has often said.

But I was unconvinced by Gartner’s view that the number of blogs will peak in 2007 because "most people who would ever start a blog had done so". Sounds a little like those predictions that the world would only need a few thousand computers! And who says everyone who might like to blog has decided to do so already? I was also surprised by Technorati’s definition of an active blog as one that is updated at least every three months. I can’t see much point in having a blog and not adding to it for a quarter of a year! (With apologies for my month’s silence…)