Do I find a frightening coincidence here?

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Feed, Suck and Digital Nation were published continually for about five or six years. Does that suggest that there's a certain logical lifespan for an online journal or column? Perhaps it's simply that the economic bubble burst at a particular time. Few publications have been around much longer, but that's simply because web journals didn't have much chance of starting much earlier. I subscribe to a number of web and e-mail newsletters which no longer reach me - newsletters which I found provocative and well written and which I expected to continue to receive for months if not years. Usually I never received notice of their discontinuation. Instead, only after a rather lengthy period of time I realize that I haven't heard from them. I then try and find them on the web and often succeed, but also notice that on the whole they haven't been updated. Five years seems to be, by web standards, a pretty substantial lifespan.

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Go to: Not only the mighty are fallen, or
Go to: Is this a requiem?, or
Go to: Something for Nothing.