Is blogdom getting stodgy?

In the paper about blog diversity and "power laws,"there was rfeverence to a blog called "diveintomark" which the blogger turns out to have shut down because he decided blogging was no longer anything special.

And this:

Addendum: #David Sifry, creator of the Technorati.com, has created the Technorati Interesting Newcomers List, in part spurred by this article. The list is designed to flag people with low overall link numbers, but who have done something to merit a sharp increase in links, as a way of making the system more dynamic.

no longer exists.