Livejournal usage continues to slowly decline. insomnia's post here from last december continues to attract new comments and the statistics continue to be updated. In addition, pyrop has posted a graphical representation of these stats on their own journal. Here's a key graphic:
( Graph showing decline in LJ usage statistics )

The Strib (Minneapolis-St Paul Star Tribune) published an article in this morning's paper about blogging hitting its peak, and possibly even going into decline. You can read the article online here, but knowing that the Strib only keeps articles public on the web for a limited amount of time, I will archive it behind the cut.

( Next year may see a decline -- or at least a leveling off --in the blogging boom. )

For most of the history of LiveJournal, you could take a look at archive.org and track the site's growth by looking at their archives of http://www.livejournal.com/stats.bml . This changed in early 2005, after LJ became a part of 6A, but there are a few LJers who are interested in this data, as it indicates that LJ has been effectively shrinking in ( Read more... )