Celebrating 100 Articles and Essays
Article • 507 Words • IndieWeb/Meta-blogging, 2025 • 01/09/2025
Identifying Trends
Since I’ve already reflected at 50 articles, I am only going to focus on my 51st-100th articles and essays.
My website has changed a lot since I hit 50 posts and I have added a lot of non-article content as well. While that is certainly something to celebrate as well, I do have a soft spot in my heart for articles and essays. I enjoy being able to have a “complete” artifact of my own ideas to share and live on my blog.
I created the essay category at first to cover the publishing of my old essays that I had written for undergrad, but I felt like the essay form was something that I wanted to explore more. I am glad to have published three new essays, and I am planning to do more in the next 50 posts.
In the 51-100 articles/essays, I felt like I wrote my most complete posts yet. A lot of times I would write articles until I felt like I got sick thinking about it, and then would publish. I still do that, but these days I usually am done with the piece by then, in part due to the fact that I have been better about breaking up larger thoughts into multiple articles.
Interesting Post Statistics
51st Post: 11/28/2023 and was the Reflecting on 50 Posts article.
100th Post: 1/6/2025 In Defense of Medium Friends, which was initially a stub, but then I added onto later to promote it to an article.
Elapsed Time: It is 406 days from the start date to the end date, end date included. Or 1 year, 1 month, 10 days including the end date.
- This was 166 days faster than the first 50 articles
- This is equivalent to posting every 8.12 days, I may want to consider targeting something closer to once a week, but I am fairly pleased with this number. I have always been more bursty with my writing than consistent.
Total Words: 53,701
Average Words Per Article: 1,074.02
This is about inline with the previous 50 articles, because I have started to use a more accurate word count algorithm.
Longest Article: 2,879 Words Listening to a New Album a Day
Shortest Article: 110 Words Gifts I Gave This Year (2024)
Number of Tags: 22
| Tag | # of Posts |
|---|---|
| Living Better | 9 |
| Jekyll | 5 |
| Love/Romance | 4 |
| Loving Better | 4 |
| Veganism | 3 |
| Dating | 3 |
| Non-monogamy | 3 |
| Hosting | 3 |
| IndieWeb/Meta-blogging | 3 |
| Music/Vinyl | 3 |
| Beer | 3 |
| Philosophy | 2 |
| Interior Design | 2 |
| Sexuality | 2 |
| Software Engineering | 2 |
| Listening at a Distance | 2 |
| Social Media | 2 |
| Friendship | 1 |
| Gifts | 1 |
| Community | 1 |
| Personal Style | 1 |
| Career | 1 |
Some of My Favorite Newer Articles
I also keep a running list of my favorite articles in my My Favorite Articles Anthology