Artistic licence: Let sleeping blogs lie

You’ll find them all over the web: sad little notes flashing up on your computer screen like crosses marking a new kind of grave. The notes will generally employ similar phrases, lines like: ‘‘for reasons of time’’; ‘‘want to do other things’’; ‘‘need to get my life back’’.

With words such as these, another web log will be put to sleep, ushered along to its final resting place with -if the blogger is ...