Well, I would never have thought it! I’ve been keeping this up for four years now and the ink in my pen has not run dry… or not quite, not yet. Since this time last year, there have been added a further 40 posts and 72 comments. Not great in numbers by any means, but it has been estimated that there are more than 200 million former bloggers (and probably a great many more by the minute) who have ceased posting to their online diaries after the initial novelty had worn off. I’m not one of them yet.

What happens to “dead” blogs? I hear they become “dotsam” and “netsam” - that is, unwanted objects bobbing around out there in cyberspace, the cyber equivalent of flotsam and jetsam.

I recently received one of those spam comments that had glowing praise for my posts, then asked the reason for the existence of Judah’s Journal. The person (or robot?) claimed to live in Latvia (that might have been so) but his IP address was based in Amsterdam and using a network widely known in association with spamming problems. However, the reason for the existence of Judah’s Journal is clearly set out right here. Four years on and that is still the purpose to which I write.