Who is Britain's most Stakhanovite blogger?
There's only one way to find out - a ladder*!
Today's contest - Oliver Kamm v Tim Worstall.
The post below noted Oliver Kamm's remarkable 10,740 words in just 7 days, or 1,534 words per day (wpd), but in fact that's a rather pedestrian total compared to Tim Worstall. Tim's managed 34,874 words in December, up to the 15th, or an astonishing 2,324 wpd.
So does Tim Worstall win this round of the Stakhanoviteness 'ladder'? The problem comes from the quotes. Anyone can copy and paste huge reams of text and have a large WPD. If we remove them from Tim's output, it falls to 21,192 words in December, or 1,412 wpd. So perhaps Oliver takes it after all? Well we must do the same with his output - which is not as easy as he doesn't put his quotes in italics - but a rough & ready measure gives us 9,186 words, or 1,312 wpd. So it's Worstall, by a clear 100 wpd.
So who will be Worstall's next challenger on the UK blogging Stakhanoviteness ladder? I've only managed about 3,500, so I am out of their league. Older readers will remember Stephen Dan Buste, who would regularly write posts over a million words long, but he's no longer blogging, or at least using words to do so. Anyone else?
* The UK blogging Stakhanoviteness ladder works in the same way as a squash ladder, in that the winner of the head-to-head then plays the person above them in the 'ladder' and if he wins that he moves up, if he loses he moves down.
Update: The Guardian has 8,229 words in its Saturday comment section (not CiF but the newspaper). Assuming Saturday is represenative, which is quite possibly is not, then we have a new measure. Tim Worstall represents 1/6th a national newspaper (and quite a wordy one), Unity almost a 1/3rd.
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posted by Matthew @ 12/14/2006 01:46:00 PM
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