It is hard to say whether the spate of closures has abated. More blogs do seem to turn-up missing (and there it was – gone!), but it could just be that these are victims from two weeks ago and a response to the first round of Google closures. Why closed and not just finished? Well generally bloggers don’t take their work down and just fade out. These MIA blogs have been taken down the hard way. The missing blogs are mostly at least semi-monetised or picture blogs from Tumblr that are either hard core or have run afoul of copyright issues.
Nevertheless gentle reader, none of this has dissuaded new blogs from starting up; as is evident from My Bottom Smarts’ latest list.
Nor is it all doom and gloom elsewhere. Recently there have been several blogs celebrating publishing landmarks, as you may have noticed A Voice in the Corner just hit seven million. Stan over at Au Fils des Jours, which has been going almost twice as long as this blog has reached 13 million visits.
On the subject of new blogs, Kia with her blog Acknowledging Imperfection has hit the ground running and is fast cornering the market in short emotionally intense shorts. Check out her story this week.
Blossom and Thorn have a little piece on Spankenfreude, one of their many pictures on this theme is carried above.
Other pictures are from Devlin, All Things Spanking, Aunt Carla and Plector.
