It just occurred to me one rough way of indicating the degree of engagement required to produce a given weblog is to point out the number of words you might find on one. I have a couple archived as HTML - is there an easy way to count how many words there are in a folder full of HTML pages? Has anyone done a study of the number of words on a typical weblog? Or in a typical weblog posting? Or of differing patterns of increasing or decreasing postings over time in a given body of weblogs? FYI Apparently the average weblog comment is 63 words long according to G. Mishne and N. Glance (2006) Leave a Reply: An Analysis of Weblog Comments in WWW2006 http://staff.science.uva.nl/~gilad/pubs/www2006- blogcomments.pdf I just did a couple of manual word counts and one of my interviewees' weblogs varied between c 600 words one month to peak at over 11,000 words in each of two different months. --- David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/ mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/ (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog) Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/ dealingwithemail/> callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone) Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/secretariat/legal/disclaimer.htm