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Suggestions for Blog Name(s)
I've been posting on MobileRead for more than 6 years now (how time flies), and I'm almost hitting my 1000 post milestone!
Now I need some help from the MobileRead community. I have two ideas for new blogs, and I am the worst at coming up with good names. Blog #1 This will be a technical blog discussing the nitty-gritty details of ebooks. It will be a compilation of all my ebook knowledge on various topics. There will be in-depth technical posts such as:
The blog will also include links to things that ebook creators would find interesting:
Every post will include detailed discussion and references to my backlog of MobileRead posts. Blog #2 This will analyze books/authors/series using a variety of methods:
and point out any other interesting stats that appear. Words/Characters per Sentence For example, I could compare Words per Sentence across a series: Brandon Sanderson's epic fantasy series, Stormlight Archive books (Books #1-3): Another epic fantasy, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time (Books #1-3): George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons (Book #5 of A Song of Ice and Fire): Or a popular science fiction book, Andy Weir's The Martian: Top 50 Words to Start a Sentence Or take the first 3 books in the Wheel of Time: Code:
Book #1 Book #2 Book #3 25586 Total 22482 Total 20586 Total 2332 The 1963 The 1718 The 2006 He 1623 I 1546 I 1204 I 1450 He 1302 He 817 Rand 868 She 931 She 694 It 670 It 617 It 625 You 663 You 586 You 594 A 607 Rand 483 And 472 She 467 And 449 A 441 And 415 A 369 If 441 They 410 They 357 But 403 But 389 If 313 There 392 If 384 There 310 Egwene 365 His 365 But 309 They 340 Mat 289 We 308 What 339 There 274 What 260 Perrin 301 What 270 No 217 No 273 We 237 Egwene 215 Mat 263 No 205 That 204 Nynaeve 245 Not 197 His 202 That 238 Perrin 190 Nynaeve 200 We 224 In 176 As 197 His 216 As 170 Not 182 Light 211 Moiraine 153 Mat 173 Her 209 When 151 Loial 169 As 205 That 146 Hurin 158 For 197 Egwene 142 Her 144 Not 194 For 141 In 141 When 160 All 138 Ingtar 135 Why 159 With 126 Even 128 Do 158 Even 126 When 121 Elayne 155 Lan 121 For 120 Perhaps 144 At 118 All 118 Even 140 Well 118 Moiraine 116 Moiraine 138 Nynaeve 118 With 106 Rand 126 Its 117 This 102 One 126 This 115 Light 102 This 122 Maybe 110 Why 101 In 119 Her 104 One 96 With 118 Some 103 Perrin 89 Burn 118 Then 101 How 85 Or 116 Why 99 At 83 How 107 One 97 Do 83 Well 107 Thom 95 Well 82 All 104 How 93 Min 78 At 103 Just 87 Yes 77 Yes 99 Master 85 Verin 68 Are 97 Im 84 Its 68 Thom 96 Light 84 Then 66 Now 95 Only 77 So 65 Some 90 Or 76 Perhaps 65 Then This community has meant so much to me over the past six years, it completely transformed my life, and I can't wait to get the ball rolling on these two projects. ![]() Last edited by Tex2002ans; 05-29-2018 at 09:24 PM. |
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A few for #1 --
Breaking Down the Digital Word Love Words to Bits (or just 'Words to Bits') E-Book Wrangler Byte Your E-Book |
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For Blog #1
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For Blog #2, BetterRed recommended this:
Lingo Metrics I think it's fantastic. Blog #1: Thanks so much for the suggestions Pablo + Penforhire. "Words to Bits" sounds great! But doing a search on Google, you get flooded with hundreds of thousands of hits on programming. I'm thinking it would be hard to find a blog through that jungle. |
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Words to the Wise
EWords to EBooks That one led to: Ew, did I really say that? Wonder Words I'm not convinced you need two separate blogs, although I guess it depends on how often you think you'll be able to maintain both. |
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EVEN FOR YOU, Tex, and your mind-bogglingly prolific self, snookums. Wouldn't it make more sense to just do different posts on different topics, when you feel like it? Hitch |
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Thanks for the suggestions gmw.
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My thoughts on ebooks. I see this appealing to people who hang out in the technical sections of MobileRead, and the occasional fellow traveler (people searching for solution to Problem X, people who like my MobileRead posts, [...]). So ebook creation + ebook-related topics of interest. Where Blog #2 will be heavily specialized: Ripping apart books and looking at stats. While there would be overlap (many of the technical people would probably be interested in the stats)... this would be more just analyzing specific books. No coding discussions, not talking about the general ebook-world, etc. As the body of posts grows, a reader would then be able to look through the specific areas you are interested in:
I think that kind of stuff would just completely clog up Blog #1 if they were both merged. And I (currently) see them as having two distinct readerships. PS. Speaking of super specific stats stuff, there's the Lord of the Rings Project covering the Lord of the Rings books... Quote:
PS. I think I get what you're saying... you're saying I need to become even more prolific? ![]() |
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I have an awful feeling that the distinction may be more important (and apparent) to you than to your audience. A bit of skipping over items of less interest is common to internet browsing.
If it was me, I'd keep it all on one just to avoid having to come up with two names! ![]() |
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As someone who has worked with professionally with blogs and websites (maintaining them) for more than a decade*, I heartily agree with gmw, who suggested having one blog.
Websites are hard work. Honestly. So, unless you've got at least 30 posts planned for each and will be actively stockpiling more, consider one blog. It's not as though you've got two totally different topics - they are related. Using tags & categories (and a bit of say, Wordpress whizbangery) you can easily present the information in one blog but keep the content distinct. Also, it could be a cool way of introducing the two topics to each other (e.g. how to nicely display stats etc in HTML). But content is king. And you'll need lots. If there's not fresh meat often and regular, people just stop coming. Trust me. If I had a valium for every new website I've had to build for someone that "needed" it (instead of incorporating their information into an existing site), I wouldn't want to punch the TV so much when commercials come on. I hate commercials. A lot. Except maybe ones with puppies. And ducks. * OMG I think it's actually two decades. I'm not sure how that happened! |
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From the blog name generator https://www.name-generator.org.uk/blog/
Confessions of a Formatting Freak At the Drop of a Format Format Got Your Tongue? Tex 's Not-So-Secret Diary The Tex Journal |
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Thanks for the suggestions Gregg. I'll have to take a look at that generator.
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The bulk of the time would be spent hunting down URLs and linking everything, plus coming up with proper examples/images (when I wrote my Formulas Tutorial... WOW, taking good screenshots took forever). Most likely there would be short->medium-sized posts based on new/old material:
= = = = = The statistics blog: I could take book suggestions, and randomly pick and choose from books I've seen mentioned on MobileRead/Reddit. I also think tackling books in a series individually + together would be interesting. The stats can be generated relatively quickly, and there are always more books to test. Once the methodology is down flat, the same analysis can be applied across books pretty consistently. Then it's just digging through and trying to find what interesting quirks I could dig up, or new ways to look at old data. Lately I came up with a method to break things down on a per-chapter level, so I could generate a chart like "# Words per Chapter" across all three Lord of the Rings books: Have you seen my posts? ![]() |
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Blogs don't have to be linear, you could run two strands. For the techie strand I'm thinking maybe a wordplay around the Linotype machine - how about Digital Slugs.
For the actual blog, how about- A Texan Hacks . . . eBooks BR |
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Tex, when talking to an Editor buddy this afternoon I mentioned my suggestion for Digital Slug, and the context; she informs me that 'Slug" also has relevance in Newspaper production, and Screenplays.
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