If you're gone from the site for a day, you can miss a lot since the recommended list seems to shift every hour, and then the important diaries fall off into oblivion. --
HeedTheMessenger
Exactly.
Despite the forecast end of the year let down, diaries continue to accumulate apace. Here's a list of the 100 most recommended diaries of the past week out of over 1500 posted. For earlier lists, see the previous diary Most Recommended Diaries 12/04/04 - 12/10/04. Usage histograms promoted to standard feature based on feedback.
See also Newsie8200's The Week's Best Diaries You Didn't Read: Kerik-Stained Edition, for a different list of recommended diaries. Nine out of 10 diaries on that list do not appear here.
Based on results of last weeks poll and comments in last weeks diary, I'm including lists of most recommended writers and most generous readers. How do you like them now (poll)?
# for time interval Sat Dec 11 00:00:00 2004 - Fri Dec 17 23:59:59 2004
# DailyKos stories = 1533, 219 per day, 9.1 per hour
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Bonus Feature: most common non stop words in Diary titles this week. [Yes, I cut the list off at a dozen to avoid a certain controversial entry that would have been next]
ohio, wa, gov, update, jeers, cheers, white, voting, state, new, lawsuit, kos
Diaries posted: 1533 recommended 1247.
The 100 most recommended represent 6.5 percent of those posted.
- Folks Don't Get It by shanikka
- Why Ohio Matters by TocqueDeville
- It's People Like This That We Let Get Away by julie37
- Ohio Election Investigation Thwarted by Surprise Blackwell Order by Renee in Ohio
- Republicans Threaten Violence in Washington State! by msaroff
- Conyers wants 1 million emails by candice
- Ohio Update - 12/14 by georgia10
- KERRY SPEAKS OUT ABOUT OHIO by georgia10
- My uncle is a conservative swift boat veteran. by Liberation Learning
- Clint Curtis' "show stopper" testimony causes "gasps" at hearing by Spiral Stairs
- Ohio Update 12/17 by georgia10
- Bloggers Kicked out of DNC Candidate Q&A by ttagaris
- BREAKING: Witness Says Voting Company Tampered With Machines by sixmoreweeks
- Arnbeck Lawsuit: Summary, Explanation by georgia10
- Major Development: 561 New King County Ballots by SusanHu
- Article:Kerry is "in" by pronin2
- This Week in Fascism (my first try) by Tomtech
- Reid Will Investigate White House!!!!! by bonddad
- TYBOB, or "My political evolution" by Jeff Seemann For Congress
- Greg Palast on voter fraud in Ohio by nyceve
- Media Stunt: Democrats unilaterally fix gerrymandering. by joshyelon
- 20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA by moon in the house of moe
- America Becoming a Lawless Country by gfactor
- Cheers and Jeers: THURSDAY by Bill in Portland Maine
- Dailykos Burning by Chris Bowers
- What happened to...? Unanswered Bush Administration Questions by agincour
- Bush's Blame Game by elveta
- Gay Teen Expelled From High School by Ryan Davis
- OHIO Update by georgia10
- OHIO: Conyers' Letter to FBI, Eaton's Affidavit (Full Text) by sixmoreweeks
- Soldiers JAILED for Trying to Complete Mission by georgia10
- More on Dan Hamburg arrest in Ohio by KumarP
- bullshit, pure bullshit by kid oakland
- Cheers and Jeers: WEDNESDAY by Bill in Portland Maine
- Frameshop: Spider Hole by Jeffrey Feldman
- Cliff Arnebeck: Ohio lawsuit to be filed Monday a.m. by Febble
- This Week in Fascism! Midweek Edition by Tomtech
- Ohio Poll Records Left in Unlocked Building by ignatz
- Fairfield County-- Discrepancy Coverup by MrDC
- FUCK DELAWARE DEM and GET OFF OUR BACKS by A Ball of Lint
- Cheers and Jeers: MONDAY by Bill in Portland Maine
- BuyBlue.org and Daily Kos Hit the Mainstream Media by terminal3
- Somebody's Watching Me by Soj
- AIDS Breakthrough! Good news! by georgia10
- Cheers and Jeers: FRIDAY! by Bill in Portland Maine
- Bill Moyers sums it up by redwagon
- WA-Gov recount: Report from the floor (LONG) by switzerblog
- Reflecting on Folks Don't Get It: White guilt, racism, white supremacy by Liberation Learning
- Daily Kos cover story in East Bay Express by kara
- Investigative Reporter Gary Webb is dead by fauxreal
- New Study: More Absentee Votes than Voters in Ohio by wanderindiana
- Proposal: Democratic party holds bake sale to armor troops. by joshyelon
- FUCK OHIO and GET OFF KOS' BACK by Delaware Dem
- WA Gov -- to the weekend (17/39 counted) by N in Seattle
- In March I turn 18. In April I win a seat on the School Board by NickCatal
- Arnebeck Lawsuit "Dismissed Without Prejudice" by georgia10
- State Party Blog Project: Day 3 -- I need your help! by ttagaris
- Frameshop: Social Security by Jeffrey Feldman
- WA Gov --- the little ones are in (32/39) by N in Seattle
- Texas Killed An Innocent Man by WaitingForLefty
- WA Gov -- Snohomish! (36/39) by N in Seattle
- NO, You FUCK OHIO. Everyone else, COUNT. by Brian Nowhere
- Make a Difference to An Innocent Iraqi Today by Aethern
- Iraq: What's In The Drinking Water? by Avila
- DailyKos in Washington Post today by Bill in Portland Maine
- A letter from Michael Moore by maddrailin
- The horrors of reality: visiting a Nazi concentration camp by Plutonium Page
- Triad's President Speaks - first hand account!!!!! by duke1983
- Flying over Greenland: a story about the Arctic climate crisis by Plutonium Page
- Frameshop: Problem, Confront (Social Security) by Jeffrey Feldman
- Chinese Sunburn by Soj
- WA Gov -- the counting continues (24/39) by N in Seattle
- KOS YAHOO - List for Saturday by katerina
- Exit poll server computer crashes for 2 hours then Bush wins by lawnorder
- Bush's Plan: ECONOMIC ARMAGEDDON by bonddad
- Carnacki's final diary on the Kerry campaign in WV by Carnacki
- ACTIVISM: 08 Minute Activist-2nd Installment by Brian Nowhere
- LATEST: Conyers Not Satisfied with Blackwell's Response by sixmoreweeks
- WA Gov -- trickling in (35/39) by N in Seattle
- Conyers, Jackson and the Democratic Future by cweinsch
- DEMOCRATS MAKE GAINS AT STATE LEVEL by Donkeytale
- Rumsfeld's days are numbered... by ttagaris
- Voting Machines: Tale of Two Ohio Cities by jmknapp
- Man OH man, fraud finally hits the fan?! by luaptifer
- Ohio Recount Update by Ranger CN
- WE ARE NOT LOSERS!!! by lawnorder
- Getting It: Interstate Commerce & the New Deal by DavidNYC
- We Should Be Calling Them Neo Christians by eastindy
- Rant plus Q's about KO's diary by pontificator
- NYT: The 'Acting White' Myth -- I say BS by pamindurham
- DECISION: High Court rejects WA Democrats' request to reconsider disqualified ballots by SusanHu
- Hagel loses confidence in Rumsfeld. by Eternal Hope
- The Election, Part 1: The Frontpage Issue by Hunter
- Process Stories III: The Great dKos Ohio Flameout by Kagro X
- UCC Smeared by Rightwing Agencies by Frederick Clarkson
- 1,000 Die Each Day -- The Population of Los Angeles, or ALL OF IRELAND, in Six Years by SusanHu
- 51 Capital March--a blogger challenge by Renee in Ohio
- Breaking news: Yushchenko was poisoned with dioxin by Plutonium Page
- Dear Markos by MrHinkyDink
- Plea for help from an Ohio activist by Renee in Ohio
Most recommended authors
1 georgia10
2 Bill in Portland Maine
3 shanikka
4 N in Seattle
5 sixmoreweeks
6 Renee in Ohio
7 ttagaris
8 Liberation Learning
9 TocqueDeville
10 julie37
Most enthusiastic readers
1 Eternal Hope
2 doug r
3 Carnacki
4 gogol
5 SusanHu
6 fabooj
7 ctsteve
8 danthrax
9 creve coeur
10 peace voter
NB: Rankings and numbers of diaries are based on a best effort to comprehensively collect and count all diaries posted to dailykos.com, including those later withdrawn. Production of this list was timed to ensure expiration of the recommendation period for all diaries considered. Please bring any errors to my attention.