2024 in Blogging

With many thanks to Amit Gawande’s fun Post Stats Plugin and a recent discussion to add some more information to it — I’m sharing some perspective on my blogging from 2024.

In 2024 I published 701 posts with 51,905 words. Of those, 529 had photos and 157 of them had titles.

June had about triple the normal blogging activity which was from our trip to Ireland. Over the last few years I’ve done daily travel logs on those trips and usually write a blog post for each activity. It can be a lot, but I value what it creates and know that in future years I will revisit those posts with many fond memories.

A line graph shows the number of posts published each month, with a peak in June and a smaller rise in December.

Zooming out I now have a total of 9,111 posts containing 574,102 words! My blog posts have come along many migrations:

.Text → WordPress → SquareSpace → Pelican → Jekyll → micro.blog

On top of that I imported my Twitter archive and curated and improved that. Since April 2017 I’ve been publishing on micro.blog and you can see that it has enabled me to post even more. To me, this is one of the best ways to evaluate a blogging platform — does it enable you to “just write” on the web.

Line graph of posts published per year from 2000 to 2024, peaking near 780 in 2008 and rising again to about 700 in 2024.

Happy 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣! 🎉🥂 Wishing everyone a great New Year!

It was Mr. Green with the Revolver in the Hall. Tammy won!

Clue board game in progress showing the Tudor Mansion board with character tokens, two black dice, a detective notepad, and a Mr. Green case file card on top.

Enjoying one of our New Year’s Eve traditions, a delicious pot of fondue. So good.

Cuisinart fondue pot with melted cheese on a stand, a fondue fork dipping bread, a bottle of Kirschwasser, and a colorful glass goblet on a white kitchen counter.

We went to A Complete Unknown today at the iconic Heights Theater. I thought the movie was great and Timothée Chalamet did a great performance as Bob Dylan. Now I want to listen to Dylan music for the next several weeks. It was also great to hear a couple of Minneapolis callouts. Great movie! 🍿

Movie poster for A Complete Unknown showing a young man playing electric guitar with a harmonica holder around his neck, releasing December 25

Cool to see the new Mimi Uploader out with support for Micro.blog collections! This along with my Collection Creator Shortcut gives me a lot of options.

I’m still wondering how to name collections. It seems if you have 100 or more collections it is going to get unruly, similar to Pages. 🤔

iPhone screen showing Mimi Uploader app displaying 9 photo collections on thingelstad.com including Coffee, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, and kayaking albums.

I’m excited to welcome Jesse Lang @jesselang to Micro.blog! Along with Phil Rodemann @See3p0, Marcos D Alves @mdalves, and David O’Hara @davoh that is four of the Christmas Blogs. 🎄🎁🎁🎁🎁

The fifth winner changed their mind so I extended the offer to another. 🤞

The New Standards were at The Dakota tonight for their regular Preener’s Eve Show! We are fans of the band and of this show specifically. Tonight seemed even a bit better than they always are. Such a wonderful evening. 🎶

Jazz quartet performing on a small club stage decorated with colorful balloons and a Dakota neon sign, to a seated audience.

Tried a new cocktail at The Dakota tonight — Back to Black. King County Coffee Whiskey, Irish Cream, Cold Press, and Smoked Whip. Was very good but you need to like coffee.

Cocktail in a large snifter glass topped with whipped cream and a garnish, on a bar table in a dimly blue-lit restaurant