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title: "It’s Time to Shoot Your Blog Copyblogger"
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# It’s Time to Shoot Your Blog Copyblogger

[It's Time to Shoot Your Blog | Copyblogger](http://www.copyblogger.com/shoot-your-blog/). In this post, Jon Morrow compares a cowboy shooting a sick horse to bloggers pulling the plug on a sick and dying blog. Shooting a blog is a better analogy than blog-fading, because shooting a blog suggests that you're not just quitting because of a lack of time, energy, or topics, but rather you're quitting because something isn't right about the blog--its focus, the lack of interest, or a non-existent community.