I have read a few articles about digital scholarly communication in the past few days. Blogs are considered a type of digital scholarly communication; yet it is the one which lifecycle can be very short because of lacking contributions from readers. The creators of the blogs will soon lose their interests to maintain the blogs. The blogs then become "orphan blogs." It is interesting how people used "orphan" to portray inactive blogs.
Some university libraries used blogs to communication to their students, staff, faculty, and library users. Most of these blogs are "informative" and they do not necessarily receive feedbacks from the readers. I do not see those blogs as "orphan blogs."
There are so many types of blogs on the web. Some of them are created just for disseminating information to certain readers, not for receiving feedbacks or comments.
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