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Lippmann Would Roll
2011 in blogging
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on Lippmann Would Roll’s activity in 2011. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 13,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 34 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 108 posts. There were 124 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 90mb. That's about 2 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was December 21st with 349 views. The most popular post that day was Lie of the Year: Fact-Checkers are Worthless.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for digg is dead, why npr is important, is it bad to sleep next to your cell phone, and wikileaks ethics.
Where did they come from?
- 92.7% The United States
- 6.3% Canada
- 0.7% Mexico
- 0.1% Panama
- 0.1% Honduras
- 34.5% Singapore
- 16.2% India
- 13.5% Philippines
- 7.5% TW
- 5.1% Malaysia
- 31.6% The United Kingdom
- 12.4% Germany
- 6.8% IE
- 5.9% France
- 4.1% Czech Republic
- 92.8% Australia
- 7.2% New Zealand
- 48.0% Brazil
- 16.0% Colombia
- 8.0% Peru
- 8.0% Argentina
- 8.0% Venezuela
- 15.9% Kenya
- 15.9% South Africa
- 15.9% Egypt
- 13.6% Botswana
- 11.4% Nigeria
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on Lippmann Would Roll in 2011.
- 1 Lie of the Year: Fact-Checkers are Worthless 2 comments December 2011
- 2 Decency and Disclosure: The Ethics of Wikileaks 3 comments January 2011
- 3 House Republicans Pass Bill Defunding Public Broadcasting, Net Neutrality 5 comments February 2011
- 4 Privacy, Privacy, Where for Art Thou Privacy? 4 comments August 2010
- 5 Do you sleep next to your phone? If so, it's time to break up 3 comments June 2010
See you in 2012
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We look forward to serving you again in 2012! Happy New Year!
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Who were they?
The most commented on post in 2011 was House Republicans Pass Bill Defunding Public Broadcasting, Net Neutrality
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: