With every other piece of unsavory news that comprises the unbearable hellscape we now call modern American life, it’s no surprise to learn that across the board, blog readership is in decline.
What does this mean? The economy certainly has something to do with this – a dirty little secret of blog reading is that most people read blogs at work. Less people are at work in front of a computer, and those who do have jobs where they can read blogs are being very careful about giving their employer a reason to can them, and are working harder, with less time to fritter away on blog reading.
Surely the unemployed can’t be scouring craigslist all hours of the day. There are rapidly dwindling unemployment benefits to collect, a house in danger of foreclosing to clean, children who are growing up too fast because they can sense their parents desperation to take care of, copious amounts of the cheapest, nastiest booze imaginable to drink in order to function, and a spouse to get in constant drunken arguments with. But that leaves a good 30 to 40 minutes a day for surfing the bloggy sites on the Interweb. No more excuses.
