Top 10 Posts For 2008
Even though this blog is slightly less than a year old, I couldn’t resist the urge to put together a Top 10 list of the most popular posts for 2008. The rankings are based on the number of page views each post has received throughout the year. Of the 119 items I’ve posted this year, these are the 10 that have attracted the most readers.
While reviewing the complete list, I wasn’t able to discern any patterns, or to make any predictions about what might be popular in the future. I’ve always written about whatever happened to be on my mind, and the most popular posts represent a mixed bag of subjects with little or nothing in common. For the coming year, I plan to continue offering my thoughts and opinions on whatever interests me at the moment.
A couple of these posts produced an immediate surge of readers as soon as they were published, mostly as a result of links from other blogs or from bookmarking sites like Technorati or StumbleUpon. Once the surge passed, they received very little attention. The majority of these have continued to produce a steady stream of readers since they were published, mostly from search traffic. Although I’ve never made any effort to optimize my search results, several of these posts do achieve front page rankings on Google. It’s possible that a few of them might still appear on the Top 10 for 2009.
- Is Introversion An Inherited Trait
- If I Had It To Do All Over Again
- Choose A Career That Fits
- Education Is A Lifelong Process, Not A Birthright
- Revisiting The Oregon Plan-The Future Of Healthcare In America
- Coming Out Of The God Closet
- Help, I’m Becoming A Liberal
- Jesus Hates Beer
- Healthcare Is Not A Right
- A Study Of Letters To The Roanoke Times