* * * * * A blog post about blogging—how meta I know I'm not blogging as much as I used to, but I was curious as to how much less blogging I'm doing. To that end, I calculated some figures and yes, it's depressing. For instance, back in 2003: Table: Number of posts per month—2003 Month #posts ------------------------------ Jan 2003 [1] 34 Feb 2003 [2] 33 Mar 2003 [3] 20 Apr 2003 [4] 24 May 2003 [5] 28 Jun 2003 [6] 30 Jul 2003 [7] 25 Aug 2003 [8] 21 Sep 2003 [9] 23 Oct 2003 [10] 24 Nov 2003 [11] 19 Dec 2003 [12] 39 It was a fairly steady output of posts back then. Let's compare that to now: Table: A depressing number of posts per month—2018 Month #posts ------------------------------ Jan 2018 [13] 8 Feb 2018 [14] 8 Mar 2018 [15] 6 Apr 2018 [16] 2 May 2018 [17] 2 Jun 2018 [18] 1 Jul 2018 [19] 16 Aug 2018 [20] 11 Sep 2018 [21] 8 Oct 2018 [22] 21 Yeah, the best month of 2018 barly beats the worst month of 2003 (and that count for October includes this post). Looking over all the numbers, it appears that I seriously started slacking in 2010. The reason appears to be an uptick in work [23] when I was working with Smirk, and then getting a “real job” [24] a few months later (when I first encountered The Protocol Stack From Hell (rabid howler monkeys on crack indeed!) [25]). The anomaly was 2015: Table: Not a bad number of posts per month—2015 Month #posts ------------------------------ Jan 2015 [26] 42 Feb 2015 [27] 37 Mar 2015 [28] 39 Apr 2015 [29] 36 May 2015 [30] 35 Jun 2015 [31] 38 Jul 2015 [32] 48 Aug 2015 [33] 39 Sep 2015 [34] 37 Oct 2015 [35] 41 Nov 2015 [36] 24 Dec 2015 [37] 23 I remember it feeling like work to post so much, but I like having written all those posts. Man, first world problems, right? I think the aspect leading to this is MyFaceGoogleLinkedInSpaceBookPlus [38]. A long time ago I added a feature to automatically post links to my blog to Facebook just so I didn't have to log in and manually update it with the link. Of course, the other FaceGoogleLinkedMySpaceBookPlusIn sites made it difficult to automate that, so I still had to manually add links to them. And then Facebook changed to maintain the status quo with the other FaceGoogle­ LinkedMyBookPlusInSpace sites so now I'm stuck manually adding links to all the LinkedMyFaceGooglePlusInSpaceBook sites. Granted, I brought this upon myself by wanting to add links to FaceGoogle­ LinkedMyPlusInSpaceBook, but it's still a point of friction when updating this site. I would love it if it were all automated, but alas, the LinkedMy­ FaceGooglePlusInSpaceBook's of the world want their walled gardens and XXXX the rest of the web. It is what it is. I want to blog more. I do keep a backlog of entries I want to write, but getting the motivation to write is difficult. Perhaps if I stop thinking about it, and Just Do It™ (do I now owe Nike [39] royalties?). [1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2003/01 [2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2003/02 [3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2003/03 [4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2003/04 [5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2003/05 [6] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2003/06 [7] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2003/07 [8] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2003/08 [9] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2003/09 [10] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2003/10 [11] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2003/11 [12] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2003/12 [13] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2018/01 [14] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2018/02 [15] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2018/03 [16] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2018/04 [17] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2018/05 [18] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2018/06 [19] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2018/07 [20] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2018/08 [21] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2018/09 [22] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2018/10 [23] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2010/05/29.1 [24] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2010/10/11.1 [25] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2012/01/31.1 [26] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2015/01 [27] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2015/02 [28] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2015/03 [29] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2015/04 [30] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2015/05 [31] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2015/06 [32] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2015/07 [33] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2015/08 [34] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2015/09 [35] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2015/10 [36] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2015/11 [37] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2015/12 [38] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2010/11/30.2 [39] https://www.nike.com/ Email author at sean@conman.org .