Jackson mentioned that this month was the first where he had over 100 posts on his blog. It got me wondering what my month to month frequency was, and so I looked, and being the nerd I am, one thing led to another, and I ended up writing a perl script to generate a graph.
This is the sort of thing that happens when your girlfriend goes out of town.
Indeed.. I think part of the reason my frequency has gone up is because I shifted my strategy a bit in posting.
When I originally started blogging it wasn’t much more than a “news” section on my “home page”. I didn’t know what I was going to do with it beyond that but once it took over being the central point of my net presence, I started to focus on longer well-written tomes – mostly because I wanted to avoid being basically a LiveJournal type frivoloblog. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it just wasn’t what I wanted to do.
So I took the polar opposite approach and only posted something after I had really thought about what I wanted to say, researched it well, and practically wrote little mini-essays.
The problem with this approach appears to have been:
a) it’s time-consuming, and I no longer have that sort of free time b) The things I tend to find interesting and worthy of writing several-page essays on are evidently mind-numbingly boring to others c) the infrequency of the posts keeps people from coming back regularly.
So lately I have shifted my approach to blogging in general and allowed myself to post things that are smaller mere observations and frivolity. A more casual approach, if you will.. which ironically has resulted in a net increase in posts in general. Go figure.
That is remarkably similar to the same kind of transition I have gone through over the years.
If I wanted to know for sure I would create a script to map the correlation between the number of posts in a month and the average number of characters in a post for a month.
Your girlfriend still out of town? ;)
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Looks like I am not the only one whose velocity has increased lately, and that doesn’t even include your work posts (I assume).