Five years' blog-posts in a single textfile

Tom Coates has hit his fifth bloggaversary, "five full years of random plasticbag.org posts - 4175 of them in fact, plus 1517 links in the linklog (before I moved over to using delicious to manage them in the last couple of weeks). In terms of the non-linklog posts alone that works out at over two posts a day, each and every day of each and every week, of each and every month, of each and every year since November 1999...I've written in excess of 1.1 million words over the last five years. To put that in perspective, English versions of the Bible have only around 750,000 words in them. I've written a bible and a full third of a sequel."

Here's the provocative notion: "there must be any number of ways to visualise that data or explore it or rip it apart or whatever. So here's the dump: Every full post made to plasticbag.org over the last five years."

Boing Boing's fifth is coming up in January -- we'll have about 17,000 posts by then. Maybe we'll do this too! 7.4MB Textfile Link