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Top 20 Blue Hampshire Diaries of 2008 (and other Quantitative Highlights)

by: Mike Hoefer

Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 08:00:00 AM EST

What a year it has been! While I'm sure we all have our qualitative Blue Hampshire highlights for 2008 (please share in the comments) I thought It would be fun to poke around the data and find some quantitative highlights.

The 20 Most Popular Diaries of 2008

Join me after the jump for a bit more fun with numbers.

Mike Hoefer :: Top 20 Blue Hampshire Diaries of 2008 (and other Quantitative Highlights)

Some other interesting bits

New in 2008

Busiest Day of the year
On January 8th, 2008 3,364 unique visitors viewed 13,041 pages over the course of 4,672 visits.

All told over the course of the year 85,304 unique visitors viewed 1,044,855 pages over the course of 245,762 visits. We had visitors from all 50 States and from 151 Countries.

Top 10 Countries (excluding USA)

Canada
United Kingdom
Germany
Australia
Spain
France
Netherlands
South Korea
India
Norway

Top 10 Search Terms (incoming traffic, excluding Blue Hampshire and its variants)

"grant bosse"
sununu
sutton nh town clerk threatened by paul supporters
splaine
shaheen governor inauguration
alex gallichon
"chip moynihan"
kathleen o'donnell keene
grant bosse
"fergus cullen"

Browser War

Internet Explorer 47%
Firefox 41%
Safari 10%

Notable Networks

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Top 20 Blue Hampshire Diaries of 2008 (and other Quantitative Highlights) | 23 comments

Memory Lane! (0.00 / 0)

Perusing some of these old diaries is fun! There are a couple of posts that cracked me up. In one, someone mentioned that Chris Matthews was predicting that whoever won the Democratic nomination, if a Democrat was elected president, Richard Holbrooke would become Secretary of State. Once again reminding me that Matthews is not very good.

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." Franklin D. Roosevelt

by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 14:43:59 PM UTC

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Bad link (0.00 / 0)

"May Be. Maybe Not" link goes to Stevens/Palin diary.

by: JimC @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 14:53:11 PM UTC

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It should go (0.00 / 0)

here.

by: elwood @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 15:13:18 PM UTC

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Fixed, thx. (0.00 / 0)

Hope >> Fear

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by: Mike Hoefer @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 16:07:45 PM UTC

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what's "Notable Networks"? (0.00 / 0)

by: kite @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 14:58:15 PM UTC

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The site keeps track of the IP address of visitors (4.00 / 2)

That IP address will be part of some assigned range of IP addresses, with that range considered a "network".

My own IP address will be listed as part of verizon.net. Not very notable.

by: elwood @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 15:16:55 PM UTC

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Interesting (0.00 / 0)

Good to see Stan Post (STAN POST!) made the year-end list with one of his rantier rants. We are all too ridiculous, but that is to the good, in my view.

And I take a perverse pride in this diary being on the list.

Happy new year, Blue Hampshire! Long may you, um, rain?

by: JimC @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 15:06:36 PM UTC

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BH motto? (4.00 / 1)

Wolf Blitzer is such a dink. (4.00 / 6)
I haven't used that word since Junior High.
Or been prompted to.
by: elwood @ Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 21:50:51 PM EST

Why do you people waste so much time blabbing?

We have to because Wolf Blitzer is such a dink.

by: JimC @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 15:24:13 PM UTC

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do not look into the beard (4.00 / 1)

who said that?
I keep repeating it.

note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other

by: JonnyBBad @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 16:20:59 PM UTC

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Don't know, but that's funny n/t (0.00 / 0)

by: JimC @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 16:38:17 PM UTC

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Wolf may need beard insurance (4.00 / 1)

http://thehill.com/in-the-know...
He said Russert's death has been a wakeup call. "For everybody, life is short," he said. "[You] work hard, but make sure you take care of yourself and understand the priorities."
One of which, he was told, is his beard. In 1996 he was at the GOP presidential convention in San Diego and noticed that his beard was starting to turn gray. "It had been strawberry-reddish," he said. He broached the subject with then-CNN President Tom Johnson and said he was contemplating shaving it off. "He looked at me and he said, 'Are you crazy? I'm thinking of taking out an insurance policy on it.' "

That was enough; the beard stayed.

note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other

by: JonnyBBad @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 17:23:31 PM UTC

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Wear Wolf's of London (0.00 / 0)

Or Lloyds.

Was it Blitzer who had 100 grand taped to his body at all times during the Gulf War?

And that was for what? So he could bribe his way out?

by: JimC @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 17:28:04 PM UTC

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Top Referring Sites (4.00 / 1)

One more interesting bit

Top Referring Sites (excluding search engines, etc.)

dailykos.com
politickernh.com
mydd.com
nhnewslinks.com
huffingtonpost.com
facebook.com
politico.com
openleft.com
misslaura.dailykos.com
abcnews.go.com

Hope >> Fear

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by: Mike Hoefer @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 16:27:24 PM UTC

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Hey, Hoefer (0.00 / 0)

Can we see the next 20? I'm curious now.

No linking necessary, we can find 'em.

by: JimC @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 18:09:48 PM UTC

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20-40 (4.00 / 1)

Not an Endorsement
St. A's Democratic Debate Liveblog
Open Thread: Recount Edition
How can Hillary beat McCain?
Saturday's Delegate Selection and State Committee Meeting
A Tale of Two DSCC Releases
Presidential Assassination No Joke
Rockpuppet
Primary Results Thread
A Few Complaints about our Party
Obama & McCain: Round Two Debate LiveBlog
Kucinich Goes Nader, Calls for Recount
No We Can't (John McCain video)
Obama Moves DNC Operations to Chicago
Obama v. McCain: Third and Final Debate Liveblog
Obama's VP Decision Near?
Ron Paul: Black Men Are 'Potential and Actual Terrorists'
Where's My Freaking Obama Bumper Sticker, Plouffe?
John McCain's Civil Union Flip Flop
100 Club Open Thread

Hope >> Fear

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by: Mike Hoefer @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 21:32:31 PM UTC

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Thanks! (0.00 / 0)

I have a real softspot for this one:

Where's My Freaking Obama Bumper Sticker, Plouffe?

The title cracks me up, every time, It did again just now.

by: JimC @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 21:37:12 PM UTC

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It was a bit of an homage (0.00 / 0)

to ErrinF, infamous DailyKos troll (DELETE MY ^$@!%ING ACCOUNT, KOS!).

by: elwood @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 22:07:43 PM UTC

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Get your act together, please. (0.00 / 0)

http://www.bluehampshire.com/s...

"People are busting their asses for this candidate and the national organization can't handle the freaking basics that a state rep manages."

note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other

by: JonnyBBad @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 22:15:41 PM UTC

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OS stats? (0.00 / 0)

Windows v. OS X v. Linux

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Hope > Anarch-tea
Twitter: @DougLindner

by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 18:45:57 PM UTC

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Operating System (4.00 / 1)

Windows 75%
Macintosh 23%
Linux .95%
iPhone .23%

Hope >> Fear

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by: Mike Hoefer @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 21:35:53 PM UTC

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Clarification (0.00 / 0)

When you say the "most popular" diaries of the year, you don't mean the ones with the most comments, right? Because I know of diaries that had more comments than the ones you have listed.

You must mean the ones that were read the most or what?

by: gradysdad @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 19:51:00 PM UTC

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Yes based on page views (4.00 / 1)

and even that is a bit tricky.

If Diary is fully posted on the homepage it could be the most "read" diary for the year but I can only see home page views, not what dairies were viewed on the home page.

So this most popular list is page views of the discrete diary.

In some ways the this favors FP diaries that make use of "Read More" as the user would have to view the diary detail page to get the whole story.

Clear as mud?

Hope >> Fear

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by: Mike Hoefer @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 21:22:05 PM UTC

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Those tourists passing through really make a difference (0.00 / 0)

The #1 Net Neutrality diary didn't get all that much attention right here, but there seems to be a very involved national community closely tracking the issue.

by: elwood @ Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 22:04:47 PM UTC

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