That's understandable - blogging requires that you at least can read (and, ideally, write as well). This is a way of communication that's unfamiliar to many. I think blogging may be close to reaching the ceiling (there are only so many people who can potentially be interested in it).

Update: And, hey, the spell checker doesn't know what "blogging" is either :-)

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Yeah, but dogging is also not for the faint of heart. I guess.

Does your spellchecker know "dogging"?

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dogging is also not for the faint of heart - I am guessing it reached the ceiling. Then again, now that it's mentioned on the national news, there may be new brave souls who try it :-)

Does your spellchecker know "dogging"? - hmm, let me check (that's the standard LJ spell checker that you get when you do "check spelling and preview"). Interestingly, it does! Unlike "spellchecker", "hmm", and "LJ".

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I think a proper spell checker needs to check if the spell actually works.

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Have any spells handy?

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Come on, I live next door to Salem! Spells are a dime a dozen, delivered free.

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Hey, you can change your profession then and become a spell checker. How much would you charge for a spell? For alternative choices of careers see this :-) (via rempel@lj)

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I guess I could, but I prefer charm to spells...

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The majority of bloggers, especially on such medium as LiveJournal are under the age of 20. The majority of hairdressers and cab drivers, I am willing to guess, is way above 30. While this does not explain the dogging phenomenon,
it does explain the low visibility of blogging.

The number of people who blog and the number of people who read blogs will, for the duration of this phenomenon, remain a reasonably constant percentage of the population that uses computers and Internet. But the percentage of computer/Internet users in the total population has not yet hit its ceiling.

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Of course, bloggers are a niche population group. But then, so are doggers... There are many reasons why people are better aware of dogging than blogging. This will change with time.

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