BLOGGING HITS NEW TIME LOW*

Yes, it's sad to say but the standard of blogging has been very disappointing recently. Gone it seems are the clever, well thought out, engaging and  informative posts highlighting the foibles of our politicians, media personalities and church dignitaries. Most posts have sunk to nit-picking, boring daily updates and 'what I did at Mass last Sunday' type dribble.

Most of the religious posts are by Robert as you'd expect but even Richard gets into the act sometimes when he's run out of fresh ideas:  RICHARD'S BASS BAG

Richard's latest post tells us nothing other than he's cold, has to go to work (a 66 year old man- going on 67 - telling young people of his life experiences - that'll be popular!) and highlighting Robert's spelling errors. He may as well highlight that Spring follows Winter.

Anyway I did a bit of research on the last month's worth of posts from three leading blogs looking particularly at frequency, interest, erudition and relevance and mapped these in carefully constructed algorithms (not to be confused with Al Gore's rhythms which are another thing entirely).

Al Gore getting into it

The algorithms are very informative but probably a bit too complicated for this blogging community so I condensed them down to a simple table:


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	Richard’s Bass Bag	Robert Returns	The Curmudgeon
Serious posts	2	0	27
Filler	15	0	6
Junk	13	18	2

 These quickly show where we are at.
In fairness to the other bloggers I used only THE CURMUDGEON posts from The Curmudgeons inc.ⓒ. I could have added the various other Curmudgeons' posts but this would have unfairly increased the serious posts number.

The figures speak for themselves.












* As evidenced by this post from Richard's Bass Bag: RICHARD'S BASS BAG
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