Top Ten articles for 2010
Sadly only two articles from the past year made the list. Six are carryovers from last year (the number in parentheses shows their rank in 2009). Two older articles made the list for the first time.
1 (1) Faces of Pain Chart - Feb. 22, 2008
The Wong-Baker Pain Chart holds the world's fascination for yet another year. With 5,000+ pageviews it outdraws the rest by about 4,000. I don't get it.
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2 (3) David Carson; LeBron Etch A Sketch - June 14, 2007
The lead article is about designer David Carson, but the draw is LeBron James. Now that he's gone from Cleveland maybe his popularity will drop.
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3 (4) Lake Erie UFOs - Mar. 2, 2007
Hard to beat a good UFO story, or any local UFO story at all. The best part of this one, a home video, was removed from YouTube by its owner.
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4 Advice to an "A" Student - November 5, 2010
Some students may be motivated by grades, for others it becomes a near-obsession. I'm not sure this is what education is all about.
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5 (8) About The View From 32
If you've ever wondered about the story behind this website, or why the pages change colors from month to month, you'll find answers here.
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6 (7) Shepard Fairey: is it plagiarism; Obamacize yourself - January 22, 2009
The Obama HOPE poster made graffiti artist/designer Shepard Fairey famous enough to be sued by Associated Press for stealing one of their photos. The story is complicated, the issues cloudy.
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7 Precious, the movie - December 4, 2009
It's stark and brutal at times, but alive with great performances. There's no happy ending, but at least a bit of hope.
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8 (10) Package pornography: sexy water bottle - Aug. 9, 2008
By now everyone should know that bottled water is an environmental disaster. This "sexy" packaging makes it even worse. What were they thinking?
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9 Lake Erie water snake - June 20, 2009
The water snakes on Kelleys Island always patrol the beach. Once in a while we get to watch them swallow their prey on the rocks.
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10 "Louder Than A Bomb" Is Da Bomb! - March 25, 2010
One of the best of the many films I saw at this year's Cleveland International Film Festival was about a poetry slam team from an inner-city high school. The students I saw it with were cheering along with it.
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A little better
Compared to last year, the numbers show slight improvement:
- more visitors (17,099 vs. 16,596) looked at
- more pages (36,167 vs. 35,181) during a
- longer visit (1 min. 12 sec. vs. 1 min. 9 sec.).
The best day was November 8, with 597 visits.
What were they thinking? (top search words):
- "the view from 32"
- "pain chart faces"
- "smiley face pain scale"
- "heat surge amish scam",
- "al wasco"
Believe it or not, the rest of the top ten were variations of the pain chart search.
