Of course 2010 was only a partial year, so the number is low. There seems to be a noticeable jump for 2018 and 2019. To some extent that reflects the fact that, late in 2018, I realized that it was easy to embed tweets in a post, thus giving me a low (psychological) energy way to make posts. I made 33 tweet posts in 2018 and 150 in 2019. If we subtract those numbers we get the following chart.
There’s still a dramatic jump between 2017 and 2018, but 2019 now has fewer posts than 2018.
Here’s my monthly totals for 2019:
The dip in the late winter and spring is normal, though it came a month or so late this year and went unusually low. That likely counts for the drop in posting relative to 2018.
What have I been posting about? As of December 11 of this year I had 680 different tags. I may have added one or three since then, but I don’t really know. I will probably add some more in the future. But I may also prune some. There are half a dozen or so tags that I’ve only used once. Perhaps I should remove them. We’ll see.
Top 50 topic labels, more or less
I went through my tag list and picked out 104 with a fair number of posts each (see list in next section). That list is certainly not THE 104 most frequent labels. I then sorted them in descending numerical order and picked the top 50 and made short notations about the kinds of posts associated with each topic. That list is immediately below.
The major distinction is between photograph posts and all the rest. The great majority of the photos are mine, though I have used that label for tweet posts containing photos by others or even images of art. Among the rest, the major distinction is between long-form articles expressing my ideas and link posts. Most of the link posts, however, contain substantial quotations from the linked article (or articles). Of course, it’s not quite that simple – it never is, is it? Some of the photo posts are essays about photography, and so contain prose, sometimes quite a bit of prose.
Beyond this, I could go on and on with various kinds of commentary on what’s in specific categories. But I won’t. This isn’t meant to be an annotated guide to New Savanna. It’s just a quick and dirty snapshot.
Counts for 104 selected topics
Here are the counts for 104 selected topics arranged in alphabetical order by topic. Why 104? No particular reason. That’s how many I decided to take note of, out of the 680 or so topics I’ve used. I had two criteria in mind: number and salience. I probably picked every tag that has more than, say, 100 instances. Below that, number played a role, but so did salience. That is, even if the number was low, I picked it because it represents an important aspect of my work, e.g. manga with only 19 uses.
abundance 99 African-American 104 AI 175 America 96 American myth 407 animation 195 anime 63 Apocalypse Now 35 autobiography 112 awesome 132 behavioral mode 61 Bergen Arches 67 cognitive science 156 Coleridge 37 community 154 computation 285 coupling 62 cultural evolution 395 culture 511 digital humanities 279 Disney 101 economics 187 emotion 49 Fantasia 52 film 253 flowers 282 form 68 future 99 g-zone 79 graffiti 464 Hoboken 304 humanities 109 irises 48 jamming 50 Japan 123 jazz 101 Jersey City 544 jivometric 297 language 227 Latour 77 Lévi-Strauss 22 life 42 linguistics 167 literary criticism 523 macroanalysis 43 man-in-space 39 manga 19 manhattan 105 memes 77 method 376 mind 118 Miyazaki 53 music 376 myth-logic 46 narrative 225 nation-state 52 natural geometry 236 neuroscience 177 new government 15 new savanna 36 Nina Paley 226 object-oriented ontology 219 ontological cognition 42 open letter 8 peak experience 39 perception 56 performing 60 personal 92 philosophy 408 photo 2171 photography 127 plants 143 play 21 poetry 65 politics 356 pop culture 432 Presidential 2016 54 progress 18 psychology 262 Ramble 19 reading 51 reading>reading 22 regulate-mind 20 religion 86 rhythm 46 ring-form 81 science 125 sexuality 40 Shakespeare 50 shaky-cam 76 society 275 street art 101 synchrony 60 TalentSearch 35 technology 123 transnational 55 Trump 104 tweet 183 unityofbeing 20 urban geometry 79 urban pastoral 150 violence 30 wayquay's 84 working paper 73