I made my first post at New Savanna on April 14, 2010 and have published 6607 posts up through December 31, 2019. This chart shows yearly totals for the decade:
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
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