Part Two of Three.
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In 2012 and for a few years after, I wrote roughly one to two posts per month.
Usually it was just a summary piece with links to a "popping" or popular matter in the country.
Sometimes it was something outside of current affairs, but usually it stayed within the themes of policy or politics, or history or civics.
There was also the occasional feature on tourism, geography, family life, literature, or the media.
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Other favourites: Africa and the AU, commemorating Nigeria's independence on October 1st, big news from other African countries, Youth, Women, sports, World Cup football, Christmas, elections, and other events.
I started adding a smattering of music on occasion in 2013.
2014 brought scary news - remember ebola? I thought we were going to die.
In case all of this bores you, please bear with me:
In 2015 I tried even snappier posts (two pictures, the headline asks you to pick one ) and music posts, with nice music videos. I called this the great pivot and as you know NewsBuka would evolve (today) to feature music posts about half the time.
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2016 is notable for the great acceleration then.
Attention spans in the world were going down, fast, and so the less any item demanded of a visitor the better. It took a while, but I finally learned that I could loosen up and just share tiny posts containing no true editorial, no new writing, but just other so-called "content" -
music or snippets of almost anything, like great photos, the pick-one format from before, tweets, or instagram or even facebook items.
Also (now I remember) I stopped working at my 2012-2016 job that February.
For these two reasons I started posting far more than before, up to about 10 posts per month.
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