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Let's face it, the personal blogging and independent website community seems to me to skew older these days. Many of the people still maintaining their own sites have been doing it for 10, 20, or even 25 years. I would not be surprised if a large portion of the traditional personal blogging community is now over 40
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I think you're facing a combination of survivor bias and selection bias.
The survivor bias comes from the fact that the blogs that you follow or pay attention to get older, and older blogs are more-likely to be operated by older people. That's just how time works! A 28 (!) year-old blog like mine has had lots of opportunities for you to discover it, and if you happened to fist visit it any time in the first three quarters of its existence... then it'd necessarily have been a blog that you were aware of for at least seven years by now. Even seven years of archives is quite a lot!
The selection bias comes from the fact that older blogs are more-likely to attract your attention in the first place. The blogs you follow are more-likely to represent, or to link to, other older blogs. Furthermore, more-experienced (and therefore probably older) bloggers are more-likely to attract attention even when they make new blogs, because they promote those blogs more-assertively, attract more attention from their wider peer network, etc.
Unless you make an active effort to find new blogs by younger bloggers, they're pretty invisible. But, surprisingly, they are out there on a whole new generation of personal websites. I wrote a post in a web forum (remember those? they're still around too!) a couple of weeks ago expressing my shock (and delight, and hope) to have discovered that a new wave of personal websites and, yes, blogs that's been quietly appearing online is not fuelled by nostalgia... but by the enthusiasm of folks who are often too young to remember the Web of the 90s and early 00s!
So yeah: I don't entirely agree, Michael. I think there are a surprising number of new and younger bloggers... they're just... quiet, and they're not on your radar.
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