{"id":3348,"date":"2011-12-07T18:17:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T22:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2011-12-07T18:17:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T22:17:42","slug":"my-10-years-of-blogging-by-om-malik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/my-10-years-of-blogging-by-om-malik\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 &#8220;My 10 years of blogging&#8221; by Om Malik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2011\/11\/26\/10-years-gigaom\/\">GigaOm<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><em>Given that there isn\u2019t 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 :)<\/em><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; font-weight: normal; display: block; clear: none; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\n<li class=\"first\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http:\/\/s1.wp.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/gigaom\/img\/ul-li-bg.png?v=7); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; list-style-type: none; background-position: 0px 8px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><em>11,165 posts<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http:\/\/s1.wp.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/gigaom\/img\/ul-li-bg.png?v=7); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; list-style-type: none; background-position: 0px 8px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><em>About 3 posts a day, every day for roughly 10 years.<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http:\/\/s1.wp.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/gigaom\/img\/ul-li-bg.png?v=7); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; list-style-type: none; background-position: 0px 8px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><em>About 2.06 million words.<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"last\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http:\/\/s1.wp.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/gigaom\/img\/ul-li-bg.png?v=7); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; list-style-type: none; background-position: 0px 8px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><em>About 215 words per post.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty good. I&#8217;ve published 5,000 posts in the last 12 years but here&#8217;s where Om and I differ and the reason he&#8217;s successful and I&#8217;m not aside from the fact that he&#8217;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&#8217;re writing too much. It&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>When you compound my 5K posts by the 1200 word per post average, you get about 6,000,000 words. So what if I&#8217;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&#8217;t&#8217; want anything to think I&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;s just a problem of distribution.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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. 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