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The calendar says February 28, and that can mean only one thing:  the Comment Block experiment has come to an end.

In case you’ve been pulling a Rip Van Winkle, I’ve been following in Justin’s footsteps by trying to provide a “meaningful” (ha!) post each day for a month.  (If you want to read what you missed, you can peruse the contents of the appropriate tag at your leisure.)

It was partially an experiment to see if it was possible for me to come up with daily original content.  While I might have managed to squeak through this shortened month, I don’t think I would be able to continue much longer.  I’ve already exhausted most of my Evernote notebook, and the remaining clips are not likely to be kept much longer.

Top top it off, I’m only partially happy with the results.  While I did manage to keep to the one-post-per-day idea alive, the posts sometimes ended up with timestamps of a few minutes after midnight (and exactly midnight in one case, though all of the posts were well within my confused version of a day ), and some of what I wrote really isn’t as intelligently written as I would have liked it to be.  I suppose it comes with the hectic life of a college student, but I think it would have been better to have given myself the time to get the post worked through to satisfaction rather than have to worry about publishing before midnight, especially considering I put more than two hours of work into some of them.

I also experimented with my writing styles and post formats a bit, trying a few ideas (most of which won’t be seeing the light of day again, I think).  I’ve also developed a few more ideas that might be more worthy (and lead to some more regular posting, too).  I threw out a few project ideas (to more feedback than I was anticipating), brought school and my blogging a little closer together, attempted to expand on my incessant tweeting (which may become a weekly feature, though I haven’t decided yet), and put good use to the review category.

If I were to do this again, I’m definitely going to be making a few small changes.  As I said before, I wasn’t impressed with some of the content I wrote, so that would be the first thing to receive some work.  I would also have to find a reasonable time limit that doesn’t trample all of my schoolwork and other projects in the process to make the posting more manageable than the midnight deadline I’ve been trying to follow for the past month.

Look forward to me trying for a more manageable and predictable post schedule.  I’ve already proved I can find the time, so it’s more or less a matter of finding topics and expanding on them.  Expect a little of everything once I recover from this past month, but in the meantime, I’ll be riding off with The Limousines.