Who keeps blogging after all?

Since a few weeks I manage to keep my feedreader empty...quite an achievement since I'm usually a few hundred posts/ months behind in reading...which I then try to catch up in waves. You'll notice when I'm in my catch up exercise on your particular blog with a wave of comments as I like to let you know that I came by and that I appreciated your posts   (hint: I also love it when people let me know when they came by here).

But I must say that a lot of you are making this empty reading list quite easy for me.  Blogging is not trendy anymore, most of you gave up and I miss being up to date with your lives :(.  If some blogs are kept up to date with high frequency I must say it are usually the Belgian ones in my list.   I recently also noticed a tiny bit of revival   ....Lots of readers and lovers of Lillith's new blogbook apparently can inspire some for new inspiration.  Or others consider a restart after a long silence.   I really hope this is a trend that comes true, as sometimes I feel a bit lonely here in this dinosaur blogland.  It's not really that I am without readers:   despite the lack of comments here, I do get some likes and comments on FB now and then where I stream my posts to my FB friends.  But most 'blogfriends' that I got to know purely via blogreading seem more and more absent and I wonder how they are doing.

For me blogging is entirely different from rest from social media as it allows more lengthy posts, and journalling that isn't as ephimeral as the whimsical attention spans of social media.  Or as Bnox quotes "The things that will last on the internet are not owned."   

So I had a look at my blogroll here on the right. It's still got a lot of plants with dried old leafs only, so it needs some cleaning.   I'll keep the original list here as a reference and will later on update a bit with the actual list that I do track on feedly.

• 3001 London :   
• silent since ages
• A day in the life of the crazy Whittinghams :
•  my dear friend that I know in person stopped blogging in 2001 :( :(. 
• A Patchwork of Daydreams: 
• a restarted blog, silent since 2012 :(...but I can keep track of main events in her life on FB
• A2eatwrite:  
• silent since 2010
• Blog Ness Monster: 
• silent since a few years and I noticed that blog even got deleted.  No really?   all those fun stories & memories??? why? 
• Drieduizend : 
• silent since 2011
• Gent Blogt: 
• alive kicking & rocking with a vivid community...yet I don't follow it anymore since I have lost my connection with the city of Ghent.
• Jokemijn: 
• silent since 2013
• Kashkawan Novembrance: 
• fortunately some occasional updates
• Kerygma: 
• alive & kicking,   a rock in Flemish blogland
• Kigo of the Kat: 
• silent since ?   URL no longer valid
• Leven in Leuven:  
• alive & kicking city blog of Leuven on which I try to contribute now and then :)
• Lien web: 
• occasional updates
• My life in a nutshell: 
• occasional updates
• Mymommysplace: 
• silent since April :(....loved her stories on her beautiful family
• Nortwest Ladybug: 
• occasional updates
• Ondernemer in Gent: 
• occasional updates
• Poetikat's Invisible Keepsakes: 
• silent
• Snooker in Berlin: 
• occasional updates
• Soccer mom in denial: 
• 1-2 updates a year on birthdays of children
• Sponzen Ridder: 
• alive & kicking :)
• The Cheaty Monkey: 
• silent since Feb 2014
• Tijdtussendoor: 
• silent since July 2013
• Virtualsprite
• silent since Feb 2014
• Waystationone
• temporary break now in September (hopefully not for long)
• Witch
• Alive & kicking each day!!
• Yet Another Blog
• Alive & kicking (but sometimes expressing doubt)
• Zita
• silent since 2012
• Zusjesenzo
• restart in sept 2014....hopefully to be continued!!

Conclusion: mainly the Belgian blogs keep going (also those that I added later on in my list and keep reading) whereas most foreign blogs stopped.  Are they more 'hype' sensitive?? it's a pity, no?