But I didn't understand that the post count in the side bar is week by week, so the year doesn't begin on January 1st and continue thought December 31st. It begins on the first Sunday of the year, and in 2024, the first Sunday was January 7th. That means the first 6 days of 2024 were added to the count for 2023, and it means the count for 2025 will not begin until January 5th. With the count now at 2968, I have 4 days to write 32 posts. I'm sorry I started to pay attention to this, but nothing I can do about that now. I'd like to continue in my usual intuitive, intrinsically rewarding style and let the numbers fall wherever they do. I just wanted to note that in the world of blog post counting, it's still 2024.
Feel free of accusing me of padding... until Sunday.
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Ann, Remember it is the quality of your work, not its quantity, that attracts us to your site. Happy New Year to to you and Meade.
"I just wanted to note that in the world of blog post counting, it's still 2024."
In no world is it still 2024. The line demarcating 2025 has swept across the entire planet.
"I'd like to continue in my usual intuitive, intrinsically rewarding style and let the numbers fall wherever they do."
Well, of course you should. To do otherwise is to become beholden to numbers, an odd preoccupation we see towards what are perceived as milestones. It's almost superstitious.
The streak is still attainable
^ This
Blogging rules say you can round up to the nearest 1000. So, you're OK.
Pad away (if you want).
The problem with a statistical analysis is that it results in questioning motivation. Are extra posts a personal choice or a semi conscious determination to either increase the numbers or a semi conscious desire not to increase the posts and appear to be influenced by the numbers. Knowledge can be a burden.
Blog away, Ann - I'll read. Among other things, I've always admired your work ethic.
Haters - go away! Start your own blogs or shut the hell up.
I'm sorry I started to pay attention to this, but nothing I can do about that now.
— Ann "Ripken" Althouse
"I'm sorry I started to pay attention to this, but nothing I can do about that now."
Sure there is. Recognize that new posts are now in 2025, not 2024, and let it go.
Shit! That means we need to get another calendar! I wonder if the "Blog Count Calendars" at WalMart are on clearance yet?
So a blog year is 52 weeks (364 days). No advantage from a leap year.
"Unless I write 70 more posts in the next 4 days... this will be the first year since 2007 when I have fewer than 3,000 blog posts." FIFY 😁
With the count now at 2968, I have 4 days to write 32 posts.
also in the earliest 'week' of 2024 Professora had 50 entries already [I counted!!]
in the earliest 'week' of 2024 Professora had 50 entries already [I counted!!]
let us do like Dept of Labor and revise upward honestly
New questions arise. How old are you, in blog years? And do we have to wait until Sunday to wish the Blogress a Happy New Year? This is getting complicated, like Easter when my son married a Greek Orthodox woman.
in the earliest 'week' of 2024 Professora had 50 entries already [I counted!!]
let us do like Dept of Labor and revise upward honestly >>>> 3018 for 2024
You’d best get to writin’, ma’am!
A writer on a streak has to respect the streak. You know why? Because they don't happen very often. If you believe you're writing 3000 posts a year because you're getting laid or because you're not getting laid or because you're wearing women's underwear, then you are!
-- Crash Davis
What we have here is a blog count interference, 30 days before the end of the year, in clear violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, the Hatch act and the No Blog Post left behind act. Congress needs to appoint an independent council to prove this matter.
Althouse, you're a padding padder.
I have a divan in need of re-stuffing. Are you out of business Sunday?
"Padding by Sunday" ---And by Sunday, it won't be the New Year anymore. The cut-off date for saying Happy New Year is Friday.
In my world it's still 1980 and it will ALWAYS be 1980.
This is Althouse World and it can be any damn thing She says it is. We, of course, may disagree with what She says (as we sometimes do) but that's why we come here.
PS - Happy New Year!
Life without padding is unthinkable. Think of every great book and every great film you've ever been enriched by. Do you think any would have been improved if edited by Joe Friday (Just the facts...")?
This ^10
A padding padder who pads!
@Kevin, I suspect Althouse does wear women’s underwear. Just a hunch.
"Daddy's rifle in my hand felt reassuring.
He told me, Red means run, son, numbers add up to nothing.
But when the first shot hit the docks I saw it coming.
Raised my rifle to my eye.
Never stopped to wonder why.
Then I saw black
And my face splashed in the sky."
Powderfinger by Neil Young.
That's our girl!
@Althouse, there’s no shortage of topics about which to blog. A Tesla Cybertruck blew up in front of Trump Towers in Las Vegas. EVs can combust spontaneously but security camera footage shows secondary explosions, including explosions outside the body of the truck. Then there’s the act of terror down in New Orleans and the likelihood, according to the FBI, that Shamsud Din Jabbar did not act alone, and that he was supported by three men and one woman who planted improvised explosive devices (IEDs, aka homemade bombs) around the city. You might blog about Jeff Bezos and his announced desire to add conservative writers to the Washington Post in order to reach out to Trump voters. You might blog about Jen Rubin teaming up with George Conway to give a big FU to Bezos. You have two sons with the quintessentially Jewish surname of Cohen. What is your take on the rise of antisemitism on American campuses? Is it a problem for Jewish students at UW-Madison?
"It's rigged" as they all say now.
"So a blog year is 52 weeks (364 days). No advantage from a leap year."
Yeah. 52 weeks beginning on the first Sunday in January. Hard to think about how that can avoid leap day, but I think I see.
Another idea. Twelve posts going month by month through the things that happened in 2024. Of course that pits you against Dave Barry, which is daunting.
"Twelve posts going month by month through the things that happened in 2024."
That's a pre-New Year's kind of padding (very popular in mainstream media). I used to do a favorite posts of the year, month by month, and a favorite quotes of the year, month by month, but that's not something to do after New Year's Eve.
It's also a lot of work. You have to scroll through all 2,000+ posts and judge them. Even if the quotes can be found by only looking at post titles and the "best" posts might be trusted to jump out as off-beat in some way, it's a lot of work. It's much easier to do 10 posts a day for the next 3 days. 10 posts a day is the normal average. It's what would take me to 3,640 in a year, which is about what I've been doing for 17 years straight. Just doing the normal thing at this point will get me there.
"In no world is it still 2024,"
Original Mike, meet the ISO.
Oops, it's actually 2027 when the ISO year doesn't begin until Jan 4.
The number 2999 has an intrinsic tension worthy of achievement, perhaps moreso than purposerully posting 3000 times. However, pedants will note that the new count of thousands doesn't really start until you post number 3001. Therefore, you face a difficult choice. I say go for the tension, or the certain overproduction, not the round number.
AI wants to help you out:
Okay, here's my attempt at an Ann Althouse-esque blog post about absolutely nothing:
Nothing to See Here, Folks, Just… Nothing
Okay, blogosphere, let's talk. Or, rather, let's not talk, because today, I’ve got… well, I've got absolutely nothing. Nada. Zilch.
You know, sometimes, in the relentless churn of the news cycle – the pronouncements, the rebuttals, the exquisitely crafted tweets designed to inflame… sometimes, it’s just… exhausting. And, well, today? I'm finding myself utterly devoid of any opinions, any insights, any clever observations whatsoever.
Usually, I have a thought or two simmering on the back burner, a little something to dissect, a perspective to offer. Lately, it’s been a lot of parsing the nuances of the latest political gaffe, debating the merits of some new legislative proposal, or, you know, just generally pondering the state of the world.
But today? It’s like the well has run dry. There are no topics bubbling up, no angles screaming for attention. It’s… quiet.
And you know what? It's kind of remarkable. In a world where everyone is shouting their take, demanding to be heard, it’s almost revolutionary to just… not.
You could go for a prime number of posts. From tomorrow, you can go with 2999, 3001, 3011, or an ambitious 3019ore even 3023!
Also, 2991 has as its multiplicative factors 3 and 997, making that number the largest number with factors adding to 1000. So it has that going for it, which is nice, if you're looking for a few less than octoposting days.
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