I installed a plugin that looked into the database to see how many words have been written on this weblog (this includes stuff from ScienceBlogs, Discover, and Unz, as I merged it all in). The total is 6.5 million words published. That’s about 65 400 page books (~100,000 words per book). The peak productivity was when this was an active group blog, between 2004 and 2010.
The average post has 482 words. But there are some huge ones. For example, this 9,000+ word post.
Does that include comments?
no
Awsome.
Here’s to another 6,500,000 words (or more)!