By: Simon Brooke :: 15 June 2025
Checking my blog yesterday, I noticed that I had published 365 posts, one for every day of the year. Which, considering that the oldest post that remains is from the 24th June 2004, almost twenty one years ago, means that I've averaged one post every twenty-one days over that period. Mind you, I've not been consistent; there've been periods I've posted more, others I've posted less.
How often have I posted?
The frequency of posts is as follows (top ten years):
# of posts | Year |
---|---|
54 | 2013 |
38 | 2014 |
38 | 2011 |
30 | 2023 |
25 | 2017 |
25 | 2016 |
20 | 2004 |
19 | 2024 |
18 | 2015 |
16 | 2018 |
Which is to say, I posted most around the time of the Independence referendum, and I've been posting with reasonable frequency in recent years.
What have I posted about?
Well, this:
In other words, my interests are rather... wide!
How many words have I posted?
Well, this is astonishing: 488,308 or almost half a million.
The longest individual posts are as follows:
Is any of it good?
Obviously, the longest posts are not necessarily the best, although a lot of the longer ones are posts I put a great deal of work into and very much like. Which are the best? Well, I have my favourites; you'll find them listed here.
Which are most influential? That's more difficult to answer. These are the top ten as reported by my web log this month; but that's partly a function of what I've been talking about on Mastodon.
All in all, it's not a bad corpus of work.