Speaking of blog junk, I did an archives page. I still may do another visualization of words per time unit, but d3 already came with an example of building a calendar like this, so I hooked it up to post data to have something easy.

It really helps to see how when I used Radio UserLand and (early on) LiveJournal, it was typical to make a bunch of small posts. The shortness of the posts would be clearer if it showed word count instead of post count – I bet word counts are more even over time.

Blogging really used to be a lot like Twitter, but over time posts became more like news articles, with their own titles and purpose and editing. I'm not sure it's worth writing microposts in the same way, but looking back at that history, at least I don't feel I have to explicate the hell out of everything so much.