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News postings in the blogosphere almost halved during the Thanks Giving weekend, according to Louis Gray’s RSS Feed stats. Louis reads around 400 feeds so we could safely say that the data is fairly balanced and could be termed as authentic. In a typical week Louis gets around 1600 items in a two day set of Thursday and Friday, but on this Thanks Giving Friday it almost dropped by 50% to 700 items.

In fact, the decrease in posting on the two-day Thanksgiving holiday was so low, it barely eclipsed a standard weekend, eking above that number by about 10 percent, despite the fact the holiday is so US-centric, and we assume that the Web is worldwide. So if you were feeling a bit sluggish after the Thursday feast, and couldn’t get out of the tryptophan haze to put a post up, you weren’t alone.

Louis Gray.