[Tex2002ans]

Thanks for the suggestions Gregg. I'll have to take a look at that generator.

Originally Posted by Hitch

Too Texy for your Shirt

Too Texy for Your Books!

Originally Posted by gmw

If it was me, I'd keep it all on one just to avoid having to come up with two names!

Well, "Lingo Metrics" is fantastic for the secondary blog. But if I incorporate it all under one umbrella, I still need a great name for the overarching site.

Originally Posted by skb

* OMG I think it's actually two decades. I'm not sure how that happened!

So you're saying you are ancient and very wise for your years?

Originally Posted by skb

So, unless you've got at least 30 posts planned for each and will be actively stockpiling more, consider one blog. It's not as though you've got two totally different topics - they are related.

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But content is king. And you'll need lots. If there's not fresh meat often and regular, people just stop coming. Trust me.

The technical portion would be much slower paced (maybe a biweekly/monthly post). I would want it as an ultimate resource on Topic X... and it takes time to dig through the backlog and reread+gather all the posts on a given topic.

The bulk of the time would be spent hunting down URLs and linking everything, plus coming up with proper examples/images (when I wrote my Formulas Tutorial... WOW, taking good screenshots took forever).

Most likely there would be short->medium-sized posts based on new/old material:

• Like gmw just brought up Asterisms (⁂), which lead me to re-find a book I read long ago, Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks.
  
  • I also run across strange characters in my book-conversion travels, and love digging through the depths of Unicode. For example, I pushed for proper Symbol/Wingdings/Webdings->Unicode support in Toxaris's EPUB Tools + Calibre.
• There are tangential topics through my emails with authors.
  
  • How do I tackle Problem X?
• And I'm always converting new books, so running across little nuances and fresh problems/examples on my own.

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The statistics blog:

I could take book suggestions, and randomly pick and choose from books I've seen mentioned on MobileRead/Reddit. I also think tackling books in a series individually + together would be interesting.

The stats can be generated relatively quickly, and there are always more books to test. Once the methodology is down flat, the same analysis can be applied across books pretty consistently.

Then it's just digging through and trying to find what interesting quirks I could dig up, or new ways to look at old data.

Lately I came up with a method to break things down on a per-chapter level, so I could generate a chart like "# Words per Chapter" across all three Lord of the Rings books:

Originally Posted by skb

But content is king. And you'll need lots.

Have you seen my posts?