Blogging and their associated authors, the bloggers, also fit into the cycle of natural selection, albeit in a completely different manner. Problogger is an example of a blog with highly favorable traits that allow it to prosper, but there are many blogs out there in the blogosphere that end up having the same fate as the unfavorable species: extinction.

This may sound harsh, but it’s simply a truth. With over 120,000 weblogs created worldwide each day, according to Technorati, many will fall prey to behaviors and actions (or inactions) that eventually lead to the death of their blog. However, having started a technology blog only a year back with absolutely no knowledge of blogging and in a already highly competitive niche, I have managed to increase my traffic to over 10,000 visitors and 15,000 page views a day from Google alone and earn over $100 a day from AdSense.