Two hundred posts
Matt Hall
The petrophysics cheasheet was one of our most popular posts
My post on Tuesday was the two hundredth post on our blog, which we started 19 months ago in November 2010. Though we began with about 15 posts per month, we have settled down to a rate of 7 or 8 posts per month, which feels sustainable. At this rate, it will be at least a year before we hit 300.
We hit 100 posts on 21 June last year, after only 222 days. In the 358 days since then we've had about 41 700 visits from 24 500 people in 152 countries. The most popular content is a little hard to gauge because of the way we run every post over the home page for a couple of weeks, but from the most recent 100 posts, the favourites are (in descending pageview order):
- G is for Gather (6 comments)
- Petrophysics cheatsheet (5)
- Why petrophysics is hard (5)
- I is for Integrated trace (7)
- Are you a poet or a mathematician? (13)
- Pseudogeophysics (8)
- Wherefore art thou, Expert? (12)
- Geophysical stamps 3: Geophone (10)
- The Agile toolbox (11)
- Stop waiting for permission to knock someone's socks off (10)
Someone asked recently how long our posts take to write. It varies quite a bit, especially if there are drawings or other graphics, but I think the average is about 4 hours, perhaps a little more. Posts follow an idea–draft–hack–review–publish process, and this might be months long: we currently have 52 draft posts in the pipeline! Some may never make it out...
We'd love to have some other voices on the site, so if you feel strongly about something in this field, or would like the right to reply to one of our opinion pieces, please get in touch. Or start a blog!
Reader Comments (5)
Congratulations on the milestone! It's clear you guys put a lot of care and effort into your posts, so to reach 200 (plus a book!) is a great achievement. And it sounds like you are already well on the way to the next 200.
Even though I don't work in (nor much understand) Geophysics, I've appreciated that you guys alternate the technical, over-my-head posts, with ones that deal with more universal topics, and I've felt like I've learned something here, which I did not expect.
Keep up the good work Evan and Matt!
@Reid: Thank you! We didn't expect to reach much beyond our community, or at least hadn't thought much about it, so it's been wonderful to find friends and allies through the blog. The variety of perspectives been a really welcome challenge to our narrow outlook — thanks for pushing us!
I've enjoyed many of your blog posts, but am surprised to see that my own personal favourite didn't make your top ten: Four Days of Oil. I found that one particularly fascinating and it stretched my imagination picturing 818 Empire State Buildings in the subsurface!
@Galia: I'm glad you liked it. It's one of my favourites too. One day I should figure out how much gas (methane, not gasoline) it would be equivalent to...
Congratulations!