A plea to keep this blog alive

A marketing survey found out that, if there were 10 online participants in a blog environment, it would roughly work this way: one starts it up and maintain it, two or three contribute when they feel like it and seven remain passive participants - they browse through the site, read entries that interest them, but are basically inactive until they come across something that is so overwhelming that it triggers an urge to respond.

This blog is over a month old, with less than 10 members and less than a dozen entries. Not entirely ghosttown.com as I've had about 40 people viewing my profile. Therefore, people are looking up the address, reading entries, but just not involving themselves... yet.

Why? I wonder.

One member says it's too complicated to post entries and recommends sticking with yahoo groups. A friend reckons most of the Alumni members are of a different "older" generation and not really that internet savvy. Ouch.

Hmm, what do you think? Is the technology scary? I hope it is. I would like to believe that it is the unfamiliarity of life on the web that intimidates people from sharing their experiences and thoughts. Not their fear of being judged or misunderstood, or worse, their fear of having nothing important to contribute.

For as long as we live, there will always be stories to weave, dreams to catch and poems to shout out to the world.

Not all stories will have happy endings, some dreams will die away and we're likely to hear Eminem's rap than poems of past.

But, as the world continues to evolve and as history books thicken, so does my soul crave the company of like minded travelers.

Welcome aboard.