firstname.blogspot.com: a challenge

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Tom Slee

Published

January 18, 2009

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The challenge:

Find a blog with a URL of the form firstname.blogspot.com that is either (a) not taken, or (b) still active.

The rules:

I am sole arbiter of what qualifies as a firstname.

The prize:

Fame, no fortune.[1]

Here are some that are dead. It is kind of fun[2] - if you are really bored - to look at the content of these blogs. There is something melancholy about so many abandoned sites. So much tumbleweed. Lists of tumbleweed blogs would be appreciated too.

http://alan.blogspot.com

http://betty.blogspot.com

http://charles.blogspot.com

http://david.blogspot.com

http://eric.blogspot.com

http://frances.blogspot.com

http://gillian.blogspot.com

http://harold.blogspot.com

http://ian.blogspot.com

http://jean.blogspot.com

http://karen.blogspot.com

http://lynne.blogspot.com

http://megan.blogspot.com

http://norma.blogspot.com

http://oliver.blogspot.com

http://pat.blogspot.com

http://queenie.blogspot.com(maybe not a valid firstname)

http://rory.blogspot.com

http://stephen.blogspot.com

http://tom.blogspot.com

http://ulrike.blogspot.com

http://valerie.blogspot.com

http://william.blogspot.com

http://xander.blogspot.com

http://yvonne.blogspot.com

http://zora.blogspot.com

[1] I have actually found a blog of this form, so you lose and I win. Still it’s kind of interesting[3] how many fail the test and it does make you wonder about all those counts of the number of bloggers in the world. http://tina.blogspot.com/

[2] OK, it’s not actually fun.

[3] OK, it’s not actually interesting either.