2006 posts on SMS Text News

I just glanced at the dashboard and saw that I’d gone over the magic 2,000 posts mark — this post is now the 2,007th SMS Text News blog post.

I’m thoroughly enjoying writing the blog. When I started, I allocated myself just 10 minutes a day to blog. I thought that would be achievable. Across the weeks and months though, it’s certainly taken a little longer most days.

It’s often a frustrating affair, knocking out text in CAPITAL letters to express outrage or annoyance at the way this industry works. Rarely does this industry ever seem to produce briliance.

That said, the pace of innovation in some segments is breathtaking and I’m enjoying tracking it. I started off the year, for example, lamenting the fact that Three UK doesn’t allow open internet access from its handset. Months later (8/9 months, if memory serves) that policy changed and all of a sudden, every handset appears to have an open internet gateway. Yet you’re still charged for bucketloads if you want to do anything useful, like upload a picture.

Then there’s T-Mobile and their revolutionary (for the UK at least) unlimited, reasonably priced data bundles. Changed my life, that did.

So I started posting roughly January 27th, ergo let’s call that 9 months. 2,006 posts in 9 months equates to about 222 posts a month or roughly 7.4 a day. So if I continue at the current rate I should end the year on about 2,450 posts. I’ll come back and check, eh?