jhood - 4:05 pm on Sep 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

After decades of destroying keyboards at a rapid clip, I do hardly any writing anymore but wear my fingers to the bone each day editing 10 to 15 stories a day that come in from our staff reporters and free lancers. They're usually at least 400 words each and many run into the thousands. We also have a voluminous section that's almost entirely user-generated, although we edit and clean up everything that's posted.

Besides editing, I spend a lot of time building internal links ("related articles"), doing digests, checking RSS feeds, etc.

All told, we probably add 15 to 20 new pages per day and update another 100 or so with new user content.

Most of our information, happily, is evergreen -- it's still useful a year or two after it was written and we have a couple of articles that have been in our Top 20 for years. I refer to these as my retirement fund.

In Hollywood, they say that content is king. I think they're right.