Scoble more productive than Shakespeare
Robert Scoble likes Google better than Microsoft (but not much) - and I have proof for that. He also holds his wife Maryam dearer than his company PodTech, but sadly she is outranked by Twitter and Apple. Ah, cruel World 2.0 capitalism.
How do I know? Simple, I have a list of 1,587 posts with 273,994 running words of text that Mr. Scoble has produced between 2 Aug 2006 and 4 Jul 2007. That translates into 18,362 sentences. An average Scoble blog entry has a length of 172.6 words, with 14.9 words per sentence and an average word length of 3.8; all of which is fairly - deep breath - average for a blog.
All, except for the word count. It’s pretty impressive, especially when you consider that he’s been at it for almost 6 years (I believe he started in October 2001 - correct me if I’m wrong). That’s 69 months of blogging, which translates into an estimated staggering 1,65 million words. That would make him twice as productive as William Shakespeare, who (only) managed 884,647 words in his entire lifetime, though in all fairness it has to be noted that Mr. Scoble didn’t have to write all that with a quill pen.
And here are his favorite nouns, by frequency (the number after the word indicates how often in occurs).
1 Google 1015
2 blog 779
3 Microsoft 776
4 people 688
5 video 503
6 stuff 393
7 things 365
8 something 357
9 way 354
10 Web 343
11 lot 322
12 today 320
13 time 301
14 thing 290
15 link 280
16 Apple 267
17 week 259
18 Search 258
19 world 256
20 post 245
21 videos 229
22 bloggers 220
23 interview 217
24 Twitter 215
25 blogs 213
26 company 206
27 one 199
28 Maryam 199
29 update 197
30 day 195
31 fun 193
32 someone 192
33 news 190
34 team 185
35 companies 178
36 lots 177
37 iPhone 175
38 service 172
39 Steve 171
40 show 171
41 site 170
42 TechMeme 169
43 business 165
44 phone 160
45 Windows 159
46 conference 158
47 year 158
48 PodTech 153
49 minutes 153
50 developers 151
(On Jul 4th, 2007 at 9:33 pm)
In addition, he is also on Twitter and social networks. He reads an enormous number of blogs. In between, he finds time to wait in line for 2 days to get an iPhone. How does he do it?
(On Jul 4th, 2007 at 12:21 am)
I guess he does all the things above *while* standing in line…