I don’t have quite the crazy analysis that Jeremy Keith has done of his posts, and I initially thought that there was no way I’d posted as much as he had. Perhaps it might be worth delving deeper into the numbers to see exactly what is going on?
Possibly worse(?!), that total posting number is up from 1,762 public posts in 2017. I can only attribute the increase in quantity to the ability to increasingly easily post to my site via micropub clients and some simple bookmarklets I use in conjunction with David Shanske’s brilliant Post Kinds plugin. G-d bless the IndieWeb and its tremendously helpful community for helping me take back ownership of my digital online life. I can only imagine how much higher that number goes this coming year if I can manage to build a Microsub set up and indie reader into my website and make the entire processes even more friction-less.
I unwittingly spent a few minutes last night on cleaning up some plumbing on my back end that will make it easier to follow up (when necessary) on likes, reads, and bookmarks that I collect.
I can’t bear to go through and count the number of private posts for the year, but I will say that having my own online searchable database of things I’ve written, replied to, bookmarked, read, listened to, watched, annotated, etc. has been incredibly useful over the past few years.
Inspired by Chris Aldrich’s post on his 2018 review of blogging I decided to take a quick peak and see what my productivity looked like this past year.Overall I posted 4,449 times from my website. 2, 529 from my Known site (where I migrated to in December) and 1,920 times from my old WordPress site.All this happened because of #IndieWeb love and adopting (more importantly finally sticking to) a philosophy of the commonplace book. Like Chris noted, documenting what I read, listen, reply to and like led to an explosion of writing.Better yet all of this used to live on some silo and now it lives on my website.
reply to https://boffosocko.com/2019/01/02/a-cursory-look-at-my-website-for-2018/
Nice, that’s a lot of posts! Is your commonplace book completely public, or do you also have a private component that only you can see?
Chris, there is indeed a huge private section that only I can see and search. I do try to publish as much to the public as I can manage though.