Posts about politics and national issues dominated the interests posts in 2018, with
some healthy side-effects: posts on books rose 500% from last year. There were maybe
some not-so-healthy side effects too: fitness posts were way down, and I started a new
topic about whiskey (!!).
| Topic | Count |
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| books | 6 |
| car | 1 |
| cooking/food | 4 |
| family/kids | 9 |
| fitness | 3 |
| gaming | 5 |
| geek | 10 |
| leadership | 0 |
| movies | 4 |
| music | 1 |
| nation/politics | 21 |
| texas life | 5 |
| whiskey | 3 |
I published far less interests content this year than I had in 2017 — and for
good reason: I spent far less time in front of a keyboard this year. We moved to
Texas (the inclusion of Texas life and whiskey
topics should have provided a prtty big hint) and I spent every day I could
in our pool with kiddo, reaching all the way into NOVEMBER. Between the move and
the sun, it's little wonder I'm not seeing the numbers I saw in 2017.
The nature of my posts were different this year, too. Those national
interest posts were typically very long and very involved, with a lot
of research behind them — most of the time, they were news articles (The
Washington Post is my main source because I'm a subscriber), but in some
cases, the sources were books that I'd read from cover to cover. So, fewer posts,
but with much more behind them. I wouldn't call it a format change; I'd just say
it's a function of the content — it demanded greater discipline and effort.
Finally, I split some content out into new topics this year. Kids/Family
was used for probably most things family-related, and eventually I split out the
posts related to our move and adjusting to life in Texas into its own topic.
The cooking topic was renamed to food, so I
could talk not just about dishes I prepare, but others I got to experience not
of my kitchen (I still miss forkly). The new whiskey topic is
separate from food, because I wanted to highlight our new discoveries in their
own topic.
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