Blog Virus Alert!

This virus attacks small bloggers, who get 50 or less hits a day (including their own multiple visits to check if anyone's commented or visited, which completely messes up their stats!).

It's symptoms are a remarkable amount of abandoned and unfinished posts in the "drafts" folder, a gob-smacked lack of decent things to say and a foggy head. Side effects may also show as a feeling of inadequacy on reading other people's blogs, and unfinished sentanc

Method of infection is a link to your blog by a big-blogger (other than the shameless leaving of your name in their comments in the hope someone will check you out), such as this. Alternate infection may be a result of a huge mega-blogger such as this stopping by and leaving a comment.

There are no known cures for this virus. The effects may last for hours, days, weeks or (shudder) months. Worst case scenario is abandonment of the blog entirely, also known as dead-blogging.

The best way to avoid infection is never say anything anyone might want to link to, and never leave a comment at a mega-blogger's site.