Back in February, I noted a news item to the effect that there were then 27.2 million blogs on the Internet, and the number of blogs was doubling about every six months.

I am now reliably informed that there were 50 million blogs in July, so the projected rate of growth has proved reasonably accurate. Blogdom is now 100 times larger than it was three years ago.

But cyber is ephemeral. Attorney Rebecca Bolin reported in the September 10 issue of the Houston Chronicle that that the average web site has a lifespan of 44 days. After which it is lost forever.

Does that mean that there is hope of reducing cyber clutter? Not if Ms. Bolin has her way. In her opinion, cyber should be forever. “We don’t know what will be important in the future,” she writes, “so we have a duty to preserve the entire Internet, just as our ancestors wrapped their scrolls in watertight leather cases for us.”

While the idea of cyber-immortality is flattering to my ego, I can’t believe that anyone is going to be poring over The Speechwriter’s Slant a hundred years from now. But just in case these postings are preserved for posterity, I had better proofread them as carefully as British statesman Benjamin Disraeli proofed the transcriptions of his last parliamentary utterances prior to their publication in Hansard, the British Parliament’s equivalent of the Congressional Record.

As Dizzy put it, “I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar."