Obviously, I'm posting this at this blog than in previous years, averaging about two posts per week, which seems like a reasonable target going forward. This puts this blog on track to have the fewest number of posts since its inception in 2005 (by a wide margin), but still means it is a very active blog compared to many blogs.
Some content that would have appeared on this blog has also been shifted to quick hit posts on Facebook, in lieu of deeper analysis here, because that's quicker and easier. Not infrequently, my Facebook posts get reworked into a quick hits post or a deeper analysis of one of those posts, and conversely, sometimes posts here make their way to Facebook when I think it would be a good fit for that format.
At sister blog Dispatches From Turtle Island, I've managed to keep up the pace of roughly one post every other day that I've maintained since the inception of that blog in 2011, although my posts there have gotten a little thinner and the balance has tipped a little more towards physics from anthropology and prehistory and linguistics type posts that take more effort to write adequately.
I still do continue my practice of about fifteen years of scanning every single preprint at arXiv on astrophysics, general relativity and cosmology, HEP-experiment, HEP-lattice, and HEP-phenomenology (at least 95-98% of the time), of bookmarking the interesting papers, reading the body text of the articles whose abstracts don't tell enough of the story, and of blogging the papers that are truly interesting, as well as scanning my several regular sources for anthropology type articles daily, bookmarking them, and less often actually blogging them (less often than I'd like), and scanning some of my other sources like Science Daily and other science blogs a few times a month. Sometimes I miss a day or two when I'm busy or traveling, but when I do, I go back and add them to my review later (almost all of the time, although I sometimes miss as much as five to ten days a year when I miss too much to easily go back).
This blog has fallen off more than its sister blog, in part, because the means by which I generate ideas for it aren't as systematic.
My stack exchange posting has dropped pretty much to one to three posts a month, mostly at Law.SE but rarely at Politics.SE where I used to be a moderator (a job I've relinquished and don't miss).
I also make an occasional post at the Physics Forums, although that has dropped to maybe 10% of my previous posting rate and often involves cross posts from Dispatches From Turtle Island, or a brief comment to a discussion thread that I started to post at before taking my current job which inhibits my ability to post.
I really mourn the loss of all of the Typepad blog content (even the archival posts!). But, blogger seems to be O.K. for the indefinite future (readers, please give me a heads up if it is preparing to go off line so I can archive my posts, which are also available through Lexis Nexus which syndicates this blog for a trivial royalty of about $25 every 12-24 months), and Substack seems to be quite healthy and is the latest hot blogging platform.
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