{"id":536,"date":"2006-09-03T19:12:57","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T23:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/2006\/09\/03\/blogos-posting-frequency\/"},"modified":"2007-02-04T19:11:31","modified_gmt":"2007-02-04T23:11:31","slug":"blogos-posting-frequency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/2006\/09\/03\/blogos-posting-frequency\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogos Posting Frequency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One nice consequence of <a title=\"Previous post: Moving to WordPress\" href=\"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/2006\/09\/02\/moving-from-radio-userland-to-wordpress\/\">the move to WordPress<\/a> was a tidy set of data about my posting history, organized by months, from my first post in April 2003 through September (not yet complete of course). It&#8217;s currently on the sidebar on the left (though i&#8217;ll probably get rid of this in the layout: it takes too much space, and the links aren&#8217;t quite right anyway). Here it is in the form of a sparkline instead: <img align=\"bottom\" alt=\"Sparkline of Number of Blogos Posts Per Month\" id=\"image535\" title=\"Sparkline of Number of Blogos Posts Per Month\" src=\"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/BlogosPostsSparkline.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few details are obvious:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Typical initial blogging enthusiasm resulting in lots of posts (blue dot: high of 41 in June 2003), waning down to the first zero-post month (first red dot) in July 2004.<\/li>\n<li>A definite seasonal effect: summer has generally been a quieter time (the second red dot is zero posts in August 2005), and the two peaks after the decline have been in winter (Jan 2005, 12 posts; March 2006, 18 posts).<\/li>\n<li>The blue zone is 1 standard deviation, and i&#8217;ve been there consistently since about 12 months after starting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since i have the exported data in a tidy text file, a little parsing would let me create a parallel graphic for length of post, hopefully a little more consistent over time.<\/p>\n<p>Other resources on sparklines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Edward Tufte on Sparklines\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/bboard\/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR&#038;topic_id=1&#038;topic=\">Background on sparklines from Edward Tufte<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bissantz provides <a title=\"Bissantz sparkline tools\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bissantz.de\/sparklines\/\">several nice tools for making sparklines<\/a>, which i used to create this graphic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One nice consequence of the move to WordPress was a tidy set of data about my posting history, organized by months, from my first post in April 2003 through September (not yet complete of course). It&#8217;s currently on the sidebar on the left (though i&#8217;ll probably get rid of this in the layout: it takes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/2006\/09\/03\/blogos-posting-frequency\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blogos Posting Frequency<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}