Today is the 2000th day of blogging for me. And this is my 2003rd post!
It all started in December 2004, when I first learned about the existence of a thing called "blog". I had been contacted by Judy Jackson, from the office of public affairs at Fermilab. She wanted me in a project for the 2005 International Year of Physics, called "Quantum Diaries". I was taught that I would have to describe my life as a researcher in experimental particle physics, and little more. I accepted with some doubts -I had already grown wary enough of new work proposals by then, but I knew too little to understand just how big a time investment that would grow to become!-, but soon realized I was enthusiastic about the thing!
The story of my blog there is long, and I do not wish to recount it here. Suffices to say that starting in January 2005 I wrote, at a cadence of about two posts every three days, a total of 224 pieces. This ended in January 2006, when the Quantum Diaries project was terminated. I soon found out I wanted to continue the enterprise on my own, and founded on wordpress the blog "A Quantum Diaries Survivor". That blog is still running today -in the sense that it still collects about 400 daily hits, due to the large amount of material I have published there- but I have moved my blogging activities here since April 15th 2009.
In a total of 1199 days, the wordpress site saw 1478 blog entries: a large number! My productivity boomed in 2006 (631 posts!!), but then slowly decreased to more human levels.
From April 15th 2009 I write for ScientificBlogging. Here I have so far written 301 posts, in 436 days. So if you add everything up, this is my 2000th day of blogging. And this is post number 2003! Remarkably, the pace overall is of one post a day -although I have little doubt that the average is bound to decrease, since I have recently settled on longer, more meaningful posts, which I publish at a rate of about 2 every three days.
