Being famous isn't that easy - it invites all good and bad eyes. MakeUseOf has fallen victim to the same when someone try to hack and steal domain 'makeuseof' and even GOT success. Yeah, if you visit makeuseof now - it will show some strange landing page instead of long blog posts
State of Blogosphere in 2008, Technorati has answers
Blogosphere changes quickly with number of new blogs being added daily and number of them left to die. Technorati is out with 'State of Blogosphere' 2008 report dishing out every possible trend and participant of blogosphere. It is a huge report complied from feeback taken