I just took a look back at my numbers for 2018. Here are the most popular posts during that calendar year, four of which are new, six of which are older:
- Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics
- The Bob Rubin Trade (new)
- Polar Bear Turns Purple After Medication
- The Father of Social-Science
- Fast Friends Protocol
- Observations from Actual Shootings
- He-Man Opening Monologue
- I’ve been blogging for 15 years (new)
- Maximum effective range of buckshot (new)
- The most expensive new public school in San Francisco history failed (new)
Here are the most popular posts actually from 2018 and not from an earlier year:
- The Bob Rubin Trade
- I’ve been blogging for 15 years
- Maximum effective range of buckshot
- The most expensive new public school in San Francisco history failed
- The physical strength of nations varies considerably
- Would you pay $70,000 for a lunar vacation?
- Why some people become sudden geniuses
- Why is English so weirdly different from other languages?
- Where education was tried it turned out to be futile
- Marine experiment finds women get injured more frequently, shoot less accurately than men
Again, I’m not sure what to conclude.
Also, I should thank some of my top referrers: Social Matter, Z Man, Mapping The Dark Enlightenment, and The Scholar’s Stage.
I’ve been enjoying the Isegoria subject lines more this year. You could be a part-time copy editor. You’d be the best copy editor I know with a name from Athenian democracy.
Maybe the tweeting has had a cumulative impact over the 10y.
I found more interesting things here than in newspapers of my country (Portugal)…
It’s funny that you mention the snappier headlines, Grasspunk. They stem from a technical change. My old Twitter syndication tool went defunct, and the new one, by default at least, used the headline for the tweet, rather than the first however-many characters of the body, so I started writing headlines that would work as tweets.
Obrigado, Lucklucky.
So I was right on both the change and the tweet-friendliness of the subject lines. Not bad. Now I’m going to take all that perception and shovel shit.