Review of 2009: Most Popular Posts

Last year I experimented with writing a couple of posts that summarised the year on davblog. It was interesting (if only because it gave me some useful perspective on what I’d been doing over the year) so I’m going to do the same for 2009. In this post I’ll look at the ten most read articles that I posted this year and in another post I’ll list some of my favourite posts.

So here are the ten most read articles from this site that were written during 2009.

  1. Thunderbird and Exchange
    I’m surprised to see this at the top to be honest. It’s a pretty standard piece summarising my experiments in sharing calendars between Thunderbird and Exchange. It was published in June but for some reason it had a huge spike in visits early in December.
  2. The Power of Social Media
    This is what I expected to see at the top. In October, social media had a particularly interesting week when it was behind three successful campaigns. I summarised the week in this post. This post had a huge boost in popularity when Graham Linehan mentioned it on Twitter.
  3. Headphones on the G1 I think that many people were experiencing the same problems as I did with the headphones on my G1. I hope this post helped them.
  4. Good Drugs vs Bad Drugs
    Very happy to see this in the top ten as it’s a piece I’m particularly proud of. following on from the sacking of David Nutt, this piece covers some of the points about drugs that the mainstream press don’t seem to be interested in covering.
  5. Simpler Facebook URLs
    Something I knocked out quickly when I got annoyed with Facebook’s ridiculous URL structure and saw a simple way to improve it. Later in the year, Facebook introduced a simpler URL structure which renders these ideas obsolete.
  6. There’s Probably No Bus
    A silly post containing a picture based on the Athiest Bus Campaign.
  7. Freedom is in Peril
    No idea why this was so popular. Another post that contains pretty much nother other than a picture. Good poster though. And I expect it nicely captured the mood of the time.
  8. Simon Singh vs The British Chiropractic Association
    Lots of people wrote far more eloquently than I did about the British Chiropractic Association suing Simon Singh for libel, so I’m glad that some people found my article interesting enough to read. It’s still an important case and nicely illustrates the idiocy of the UK libel laws. One good result of this high profile case was the setting up of the Libel Reform Campaign.
  9. Watching the Watchmen
    A pretty obvious title for my review of the Watchmen film.
  10. Please Don’t Label Me
    A post covering the launch of the “Please Don’t Label Me” campaign from the same people who brought us the Atheist Bus Campaign. This campaign addressed the issue of children being labelled with the religion of their parents before they have a chance to make up their own mind.

So there it is. I think that’s a pretty good cross-section of kinds of things that I’ve been writing about over the last year. Thank you for reading and I hope you continue to find this site interesting over the next twelve months.

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