Top Ten articles for 2011
This year's top 10 is sort of a "Greatest Hits" list: nothing from 2011 made it.
The number in parentheses below shows the 2010 rank; (-) means not on 2010 list.
1 (-) Can LOLCats Change the World? - July 1, 2010
Author and educator Clay Shirky thinks that seemingly silly internet activities like looking at LOLCats are powerful evidence that people 1) like to create and 2) like to share. Worth considering.
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2 (1) Faces of Pain Chart - Feb. 22, 2008
The Wong-Baker Pain Chart holds the world's fascination for yet another year. With 4,000+ pageviews it's about as popular as last year.
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3 (-) Fancy Faces: Improved Pain Chart? - October 30, 2010
The pain chart seems endlessly fascinating. About 2,000 people wanted more than they got in the article above.
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4 (-) Last Supper, The Musical; Graffiti Mona Lisa - November 10, 2007
A DaVinci Code-like musical interpretation of The Last Supper and a graffiti version of the Mona Lisa share the spotlight.
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5 (9) Lake Erie water snake - June 20, 2009
Links from a couple of snake-oriented sites boosted our popularity.
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6 (3) Lake Erie UFOs - Mar. 2, 2007
UFOs are always of interest, it seems, just not as interesting as last year.
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7 (2) David Carson; LeBron Etch A Sketch - June 14, 2007
As I suspected, with LeBron gone to Miami this page's popularity among my Cleveland-centric audience is dropping.
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8 (-) Coco Montoya, Crown Molding - April 9, 2009
With all due respect to Coco, I think that crown molding was the main attraction here, probably related to kitchen remodeling (see #10 below).
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9 (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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10 (-) New Kitchen Open For Business - May 11, 2009
When you're thinking about remodeling your own kitchen, you look for ideas. We benefited from this, it seems.
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Good news, bad news
Compared to 2010, the overall numbers show some improvement:
- more visitors (24,050 vs. 17,099: 40% increase)
looked at - more pages (47,799 vs. 36,167: 32% increase)
but spent - less time doing so (52 sec. vs. 1 min. 12 sec.: 28% decrease)
The best day was February 16, with 165 visits.
What were they thinking?
Top search terms:
- "pain chart with faces"
- "smiley face pain scale"
- "al wasco"
- "last supper"
- "lolcats"
