Survivor Thoughts from Iowa

TV show blogs are always fun, because they usually start off really exciting, full of emotion as the blogger lets out all their most and least favorite things about the show.
Then eventually the excitement fades, they run out of things to say and inevitably the blog posting falls away.

Orphaned blog: Survivor Thoughts from Iowa

Post history: 29 total posts, from 12/2006 to 11/2008

Author: Matt

Astrona - Space & Astronomical Art Journal

When I'm looking for an orphaned blog, I have to say that for every orphaned one I find, there are 10 to 100 that are alive and running.

Searching in the sci-fi genre there are piles and piles of geeks still going strong with blogs.

Some of the orphaned blogs you find out there are really put together and it's clear someone spent a lot of time on them, but then let them go unused for over 2 years.

Orphaned blog: Astrona - Space & Astronomical Art Journal

Post history: 69 total posts, from 9/2006 to 9/2008.

Author: Astrona

History of Graphic Design~Jackie Sanch

From Endless Summers to New York City.

Some bloggers take years before they start to fade away, while others simply disappear abruptly after a few months.
This blog was a nice look at some different graphic designs.
The author posted about once a week for four months, then stopped and hasn't returned in 5 years.
Really makes you wonder, did something happen to the person, did they simply decide to stop posting or did they just forget?

Orphaned blog: History of Graphic Design~Jackie Sanch

Post history: 12 total posts, from 8/2007 to 11/2007.

Author: Jackie Sanch

Your Baby Is Lame

Funny Stuff.
There are tons of funny ideas out there, and plenty of funny people that have good ideas about funny blogs, but it's a hard thing to keep up on it for years and years.

Orphaned blog: Your Baby Is Lame

Post history: 29 total posts, from 4/2006 to 10/2009

UPDATE: Looks like they blogged a few times again after we posted about them.
Great! Hopefully they keep it up.

Author: Annie

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. :)

CRAP DOGS

Sometimes blogs go away because people just REALLY REALLY don't like them.

This blog that dislikes certain types of dogs got so many negative comments that they finally just gave it up.

Orphaned blog: CRAP DOGS

Post history: 72 total posts, from 6/2007 to 10/2010

Author: SJT

Creepy, Abandoned Chi Chis

Laughing out loud right now after finding this blog.
Apparently there are so many of the old abandoned chi chis restaurant buildings out there, that it merits it's own blog!

Orphaned blog: Creepy, Abandoned Chi Chis

Post history: 19 total posts, from 6/2005 to 8/2010

Author: The Governess