Two Years on Dreamwidth
Nov. 26th, 2022 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerIt's my 2 year anniversary of blogging on Dreamwidth. Oh, I've been blogging longer than that.... I started on LiveJournal over 11 years ago. And I do still blog on LiveJournal. I cross-post (manually 😡) to both.
Having a shorter history on Dreamwidth makes it easier to pull recent statistics. For example, I know from my profile I've posted 1,321 times in the past 2 years. That's an average of 1.8 posts per day. I can also see which tags I've used most frequently. My top 5 in the past 24 months are:
What does it mean that these tags are the top 5? Well, first, I'm happy that "In Beauty I Walk" remains my most used tag. It's the tag I use with all my posts about hiking.
"Planes Trains and Automobiles" was the tag I started my blogging with 11+ years ago. It marks my posts about traveling around the world. I don't mind that hiking has pulled ahead of this. I do mind that Coronavirus took the #2 spot in the past two years. Across my whole history on LiveJournal it's only at #3, but it makes sense— sadly— that it's been more prominent over the past few years.
TV and Food round out my Top 5 of the past 2 years. They don't rank that highly in my overall history. On the 11 year scale, food misses the Top 5, ranking only #6, and TV doesn't even make the top 25 (it's #27). I figure food gained a notch in recent history because I've been cooking at home a lot more since the pandemic started. Meanwhile TV leapt up 23 spots not because of Coronavirus but because we cut the cable a little over 2 years ago. In switching from cable TV to streaming we not only greatly reduced our monthly cost but also increased the quality of content available. Among other series I've watched The Sopranos and Game of Thrones, writing many blogs about them.
Having a shorter history on Dreamwidth makes it easier to pull recent statistics. For example, I know from my profile I've posted 1,321 times in the past 2 years. That's an average of 1.8 posts per day. I can also see which tags I've used most frequently. My top 5 in the past 24 months are:
| Rank | Tag | Uses |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | In Beauty I Walk | 225 |
| 2 | Coronavirus | 192 |
| 3 | Planes Trains and Automobiles | 146 |
| 4 | TV | 109 |
| 5 | Food | 99 |
What does it mean that these tags are the top 5? Well, first, I'm happy that "In Beauty I Walk" remains my most used tag. It's the tag I use with all my posts about hiking.
"Planes Trains and Automobiles" was the tag I started my blogging with 11+ years ago. It marks my posts about traveling around the world. I don't mind that hiking has pulled ahead of this. I do mind that Coronavirus took the #2 spot in the past two years. Across my whole history on LiveJournal it's only at #3, but it makes sense— sadly— that it's been more prominent over the past few years.
TV and Food round out my Top 5 of the past 2 years. They don't rank that highly in my overall history. On the 11 year scale, food misses the Top 5, ranking only #6, and TV doesn't even make the top 25 (it's #27). I figure food gained a notch in recent history because I've been cooking at home a lot more since the pandemic started. Meanwhile TV leapt up 23 spots not because of Coronavirus but because we cut the cable a little over 2 years ago. In switching from cable TV to streaming we not only greatly reduced our monthly cost but also increased the quality of content available. Among other series I've watched The Sopranos and Game of Thrones, writing many blogs about them.
