As a blogger at the Collegian, I have the benefit of an editor who stares at me in a hostile fashion until I finish writing my posts. It helps.

But there are people out there in the world who have ambitions of being bloggers who just aren't cut out for it.

One needs to look no farther than the free blog (or "web log," for those reading this 10 years ago) creator Blogger, which has become a graveyard of broken blogging dreams.

Try this: Go to [INSERT ANY WORD HERE].blogspot.com.

Within one or two tries, you should find a blog that someone created and then didn't care for.

For example, kitchen.blogspot.com contains one post dated Feb. 26, 2001: "Hello."

In bleach.blogspot.com's single post, "Ryushi" says: "I need pain killers . . . after taking alieve three or four times a day for a week, I've developed this immunity to drugs . . . Well, there's always the black market . . ."

I really hope Ryushi got those drugs.

Some people go meta, posting about how difficult it is to get a blog started.

At fridge.blogspot.com, "Mike" complains about how he "couldn't figure out how to update" and, at one point, even posts about how he couldn't post a post he was writing about how he couldn't post.

These blogs have been abandoned, like so many Tamagotchis of yesteryear.

The big question is -- why did their creators walk away? Was it laziness? Did a better, sexier, easier-to-post blog come their way? Did they die?

Blogs are like children. It doesn't cost anything to make one, but in order to keep it alive, you have to put in some effort.

Travis Larchuk is a senior majoring in journalism and is The Collegian's managing editor of design. His e-mail is tjl5002@psu.edu.