Given that there isn’t quite an exact birthday (though December 13 is when I opened moveable type-powered GigaOm.com to the Internet) I thought this long break is a good time for me to sit and take stock. Here is the report card for past 10 years (not including the posts from my personal blog :)
- 11,165 posts
- About 3 posts a day, every day for roughly 10 years.
- About 2.06 million words.
- About 215 words per post.
That’s pretty good. I’ve published 5,000 posts in the last 12 years but here’s where Om and I differ and the reason he’s successful and I’m not aside from the fact that he’s a fantastic writer. He averages 215 words per post. My average is 1,200. Once you need a comma when expressing your average word count, you’re writing too much. It’s a huge problem and not one I plan on fixing anytime soon. My longest blog post was 7,000 words (half the size of a normal book) and my smallest can be just a dozen or so.
When you compound my 5K posts by the 1200 word per post average, you get about 6,000,000 words. So what if I’ve written 3 times as much as Om in the last ten years. Technically, I still hold a position at GigaOm as a blogger so I don’t’ want anything to think I’m bad-mouthing because word count does not matter. My point is that Om writes about one thing, technology and he writes concisely and consistently and thus he’s very successful. Me, I write sparsely, often 10 times in a day and then not again for a week or two and reading one day of posts from me will take hours so it’s just a problem of distribution.
I’m not trying at blogging. I have a job and these are merely a record for me down the road. It does make you wonder how large the book would be if I published all 6 million words on paper. Wow.
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