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Most Popular Posts Of 2011

Just looking back at the year’s posts, and here’s what people read the most on stoweboyd.com:

  1. What Twitter Could Learn From Tumblr
  2. Teens Hate Email
  3. Google+ Is Worse Than A Ghost Town, It’s Not Even Haunted
  4. Messiness At Scale
  5. 56% Of Young Professionals Won’t Work At A Company That Bans Twitter And Facebook
  6. Tumblr Is Crushing Wordpress, And Stealing The Future
  7. You Are Who You Follow
  8. Liquid Email
  9. The Facebooking Of Identity
  10. Why I Am Not Going To SxSW
  11. The Collapse Of The Complex: Why Facebook Will Fall
  12. Revolution = Messiness At Scale, Again
  13. The Rise Of Rōnin and The Liquid Economy
  14. Life As A Mosaic, Not A Monolith: What Google+ Means
  15. The Fall Of Mass Culture, The Rise Of Meaning

Some oldies from earlier years saw some reasonable traffic this year, as well:

  1. Web 2.0 Expo Meeting Scheduling: Twitpitch Me! [April 2008]
  2. Are You Ready For Social Software? [January 2005]
  3. The False Question Of Attention Economics [January 2010]
  4. It’s Betweenness That Matters, Not Your Eigenvalue: The Dark Matter Of Influence [February 2010]
  5. Why I am Going To Leave Squarespace [June 2010]

I left out things that I didn’t write, but I was just pointing to. The biggest post of the year falls in this category: Map Of A Tweet, which went viral although I simply posted the image.

Year-end posts get a bad deal in this year-at-a-time retrospective, so here’s a few of the most popular in the past months that didn’t make it into the top 15:

  1. The Famous Are Different From You And Me
  2. Graph Rank: Just Another Proof That Facebook Should Be Boycotted
  3. Rising Use of Consumer Technology in the Workplace Forcing IT Departments to Respond, Accenture Research Finds
  4. The End Of An Age, Or The End Of The Beginning?
  5. Staff to be banned from sending emails
  6. Why Apps Are The Future
  7. A Prediction: IBM And Microsoft
  8. Facebook Is The New Suburbia
  9. Learning From The Google+ Experiment: Operating System, Platform, Apps
  10. The Myth of Monotasking - Cathy Davidson via HASTAC

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