Surely Sonsy

Blogging gives everyone a voice.
This blog is someone sharing their fashion sense with the world.

Orphaned blog: Surely Sonsy - a shapely girl shaping her world
Post history: 383 posts, from September 2010 to November 2013.
Author: Jessica

Kyle Phillips's Italian Wine Review (IWR)

Lots of really great info on vineyards in Italy, and over 400 posts.
Never can tell why they stopped posting. Did they run out of wine? Or just got bored with the site?

Orphaned blog: Kyle Phillips's Italian Wine Review (IWR) - The authoritative online consumer newsletter about the wines of Italy
Post history: 436 posts, from May 2005 to October 2012.
Author: Kyle Phillips

Kristof De Causemaeker - Information Worker

With so many technical workers in the business, sometimes that knowledge just needs an outlet like a blog.

Orphaned blog: Kristof De Causemaeker - Information Worker - The blog about .NET, Sharepoint, Office
Post history: 51 posts, from November 2005 to March 2008.
Author: Kristof De Causemaeker

Oakland Makeshift Memorials

This blog chronicles the touching street memorials that people left behind after homicides in Oakland.

Orphaned blog: Oakland Makeshift Memorials 2007 - After a homicide, what do others leave behind to memorialize the victim?
Post history: 130 posts, from January 2007 to January 2008.
Author: NIC B.

Shanty Insanity!

When the design bug hits, you have to tell everyone! And eventually you've said what you have to say.

Orphaned blog: Shanty Insanity!
Post history: 22 posts, from December 2009 to June 2013.
Author: CINDY

Stephen Smith - Confessions from a Church IT Director

Bridging the gap between having a personal blog for fun and giving good tips for things like computer use can be tough. You never really know who's reading your content, and it can be tough to keep blogging when it feels like you're just throwing your posts out onto a busy internet where no one is listening.

This blogger put his thoughts out there from his job as an IT director at a church. Kept it up for a year and then called it quits back in 2008.

Orphaned blog: Stephen Smith - Confessions from a Church IT Director
Post history: 10 posts, from August 2007 to August 2008.
Author: Stephen Smith

HISTORY OF NHL TRADES

Blogs are a great place to start something special about things you are passionate about.
They can also be a lot of work, and over time many people just don't see the benefit of updating their content anymore.
This blog is a great idea, laying out the NHL trades through history. But they stopped in 2010, probably just didn't have the time or desire to keep updating it.

Orphaned blog: HISTORY OF NHL TRADES
Post history: 54 posts, from August 2007 to February 2010.
Author: Sean Zandlberg

ben-ohki muyo!! ...easily amused

Personal blogs were pretty popular for a long time.
Can't say if it was facebook that killed them, or if people just ran out of steam?

Orphaned blog: ben-ohki muyo!! ...easily amused
Post history: 784 posts, from February 2005 to October 2012.
Author: Ben-Ohki

Bird Lovers Only Rescue

With the simplicity of setting up a website and posting, blogs make an easy choice for people doing things like staring up new ideas, business ventures or charitable endeavors.

This blog ran for a good 4 years, trying to help rescue birds.
Maybe they'll start up again some day.

Orphaned blog: Bird Lovers Only Rescue
Post history: 117 posts, from September 2007 to May 2011.
Author: Mannie Pause

Project 'Cube 2007

When you've got a cool project to do and you want to announce it to the world... why not start a blog?

This person made a huge subwoofer designed just like a Rubik's cube. Pretty awesome DIY project if you ask me!

Orphaned blog: Project 'Cube 2007
Post history: 24 posts, from October 2007 to August 2008.
Author: Zachary Paisley

THE BOOK DESIGN REVIEW

When it's time for the curtain call, some people have enough respect to bow out gracefully.
This blog author published over 1,000 posts over five years, and when it just didn't feel right anymore he shut it down with a sign off post. Pretty good way to go.

Orphaned blog: THE BOOK DESIGN REVIEW
Post history: 1,112 posts, from January 2005 to January 2010.
Author: Joseph Sullivan

the life of brian

Rock on NZ, bloggers come from all over the world.

Orphaned blog: the life of brian
Post history: About 60 posts, from 1/05 to 2/06.
Author: nincomjoel

Photorama

Some blogs are just a one shot deal.
Sign up, post once, never look back!

Orphaned blog: Photorama
Post history: 1 post, 7/13/2008.
Author: Nikkon

Coffee Tourist

Who doesn't love a good coffee shop?

Orphaned blog: Coffee Tourist
Post history: 7 posts, from 11/2005 to 12/2005.
Author: Leroy's Mom

Aly Girl: A World of Words and Pictures

The best blogs start with good intentions.

In fact, part of the reason it stinks that blogs get orphaned, abandoned or lost
is that very often you'll find a blog that's EXACTLY what you're looking for,
only to discover that it is a dead blog and the author has completely left it behind.

Orphaned blog: Aly Girl: A World of Words and Pictures The Good, The Bad and Very Brightly Coloured! [WARNING: may contain confronting or personal material]

Post history: 167 total posts, from 2/2009 to 3/2010.

Author: AlyGurl

This blog unfortunately has 5 other blogs which also seem to be orphaned. :(

Looks like it's mostly a blog about someone's personal life, which I think are very common for people to start and then when they get busy with other life things or switch to facebook / twitter they leave it behind.

Maybe she'll notice we linked to her and it'll inspire her to start blogging again. :)

Black Plate Special

Just a tip for all the bloggers out there...

You really don't ever need to start your blog posts with something like "Sorry I haven't posted in a while"

Quite often when you find an old orphaned blog, you'll see that the last 5 posts all start with "Sorry I haven't posted in a while" and then a 3 month span in between each post.

Just make your post!

Orphaned blog: black plate special : an ana friendly food blog

Post history: 6 total posts, from 8/2010 to 9/2010.

Author: embre

If you haven't heard of the term "ana" it's a nickname for "anorexia".

So this blog was all recipes in support of the anorexic super skinny waif lifestyle.

The author also had another blog, which was orphaned in 2011.