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If you consider the time from when he started to publish essays on a regular basis ("Java's Cover" in April 2001) until November 2012 it is 143 essays in 140 months.

Given the length and quality of his posts I'd consider this incredibly prolific for a single writer. Otherwise I completely agree with you.

(Some time ago I made a table with the length of the essays vs time. I never published it, but if someone is interested I can do so.)

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> (Some time ago I made a table with the length of the essays vs time. I never published it, but if someone is interested I can do so.)

The answer to this kind of remark is always : please do so :)

Actually I misremembered, I never plotted the data against time, it's just a CSV with word count for all essays.

I put the CSV on Github[1], there is also one for codinghorror.com and the scripts that I used to create the tables. Some additional word count data (e.g. John D. Cook's The Endeavor) is on my website[2].

[1] https://raw.github.com/weinzierl/length/master/wcpg.csv

[2] http://weinzierlweb.com/length

Uhm, that is fairly prolific. Could it be that his frequency increased at some point ? I remember when he started he didn't even bother with an RSS feed (which was all the rage back then), he'd publish fairly sparingly and new posts were major events.

Or maybe it's exactly that: in a blogosphere pumping content every hour every day (I can't believe at one point I even followed Scoble and Winer), I might have perceived somebody posting on a monthly schedule as "not very prolific".

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