The first full week of the new year found Kosmopolitans returning from holiday ready for action: 759 authors posted 1393 diaries, of which 1185 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 1890 recommending readers; 98 were recommended by more than 30 readers.
The 100 diaries receiving the most recommendations (shown below) represent only 7% of those posted. The posting frequency histograms and lists of diary readers awarding the most recommendations and diary authors receiving the most recommendations are also provided.
A special section this week is a table summarizing weekly Diary activity over the period I've been keeping track of it. Don't expect to see this kind of data more often than quarterly.
To date I've chosen not to print the raw numbers of recommendations given and received that give rise to the rankings. What do you think?
# for time interval Sat Jan 1 00:00:00 2005 - Fri Jan 7 23:59:59 2005
# DailyKos diaries = 1393, 199 per day, 8.3 per hour
# Diaries per day
mm dd n '*' * n/10
01 01 113 ***********
01 02 142 **************
01 03 207 ********************
01 04 219 *********************
01 05 246 ************************
01 06 231 ***********************
01 07 235 ***********************
# Diaries per hour
PST n '*' * n
00:00 4.4 ****
01:00 3.3 ***
02:00 2.3 **
03:00 1.7 *
04:00 2.6 **
05:00 4.1 ****
06:00 9.3 *********
07:00 11.4 ***********
08:00 9.9 *********
09:00 10.7 **********
10:00 13.7 *************
11:00 11.1 ***********
12:00 11.1 ***********
13:00 10.6 **********
14:00 9.4 *********
15:00 11.7 ***********
16:00 9.7 *********
17:00 9.9 *********
18:00 11.1 ***********
19:00 10.3 **********
20:00 11.0 ***********
21:00 7.6 *******
22:00 7.7 *******
23:00 4.3 ****
Diary Authors: 750
Recommending Readers: 2274
Diaries posted: 1393 recommended 1185.
The 100 most recommended represent 7.2 percent of those posted.
- The Republicans Have Won by georgia10
- VA Legislative Sentry: Have a Miscarriage, Go to JAIL? by Maura in VA
- The Informed Citizen's Guide To The 2004 Election by georgia10
- Armando's Challenge, Or The Informed Citizen's Guide To The 2004 Election by georgia10
- Managers and Shelf Stockers by ColdFusion04
- Fuck Off Democrats by Chris Bowers
- You Do Not Want Election Reform by Chris Bowers
- Rockridge Institute Forums Open by blackmahn
- Could they be.....SATAN? by AdmiralNaismith
- Democrats!! Propose A Constitutional Amendment by lapin
- My experience calling all 45 Dem Senators-Share! by pronin2
- The Boo Man respectfully takes on Markos by BooMan23
- One simple question by Sorceress Sarah
- CNN telling the truth, briefly??? by dday
- Amazing first hand account by sfgary
- Democracy is Dead - A Response to georgia10 by eugene
- I am my own troll by decembersue
- Live Thread: Electoral College Debate by georgia10
- Gonzalez Hearing Live Thread - CSPAN by reef the dog
- What's in the Bible, part I by pastordan
- Sinking Boats in the Pacific - not in the news by MFL
- Does Anybody Here Remember Jose Padilla? by Soj
- White House memo: Pitch Social Security doom by VirginiaDem
- "Election Reform": Bringing Back The Big Ideas by georgia10
- It is becoming CW that GOP leadership is corrupt! by BetaCarbon
- Barbara Boxer will join Conyers if enough calls! by ssteuer
- Armstrong Williams - literally a whore for Bush by pamindurham
- Howard Dean does the footwork by Chris Andersen
- What is the Associated Press hiding? by hannah
- BOXER SIGNS by wanderindiana
- What's in the Bible, part II by pastordan
- Gen. Clark: Nomination of Gonzales an Outrage by Armando
- Bush Prosposal: Life Sentences for Suspected Terrorists Without Trial by louismg
- Bill O'Reilly is right by up2date
- Pro-birth? Blah. Forced motherhood! by joshyelon
- Cheers and Jeers: MONDAY by Bill in Portland Maine
- Ex-FBI agent claims nuclear coverup: the Rocky Flats story by Plutonium Page
- Frameshop: The Feldman Diaries by BigDog04
- Growing American brutality in Iraq by tyronen
- Last chance to avoid repeat of Fahrenheit 9/11 opening... by ssteuer
- The Side Door to Iraq by Deep Dark
- The personal stories almost nobody knows, but should by SusanHu
- Democrat Max Baucus Throws Monkeywrench Into WH Plans for SS 'Reform' by DemFromCT
- Kenneth Blackwell speaks out on Ohio election by pointsoflight
- Cheers and Jeers: TUESDAY by Bill in Portland Maine
- American Engineers - a dying breed. by pwax
- Help! I can't do it all myself. by czawadzki
- I Never Thought I Did, But I Guess I Hate America by Myrrander
- Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!! by Bill in Portland Maine
- Castaneda applied to Cuyahoga by jmknapp
- Roll call for old Deaniacs at kos by PLS
- Cheers and Jeers: WEDNESDAY by Bill in Portland Maine
- LGBT News Roundup, 1/3/2005 by pamindurham
- New CNN CEO: Jon Stewart was right, Crossfire sucks by neil
- Brothers and Sisters... by pastordan
- It's Over. by Delaware Dem
- Breaking: Olbermann says up to 6 senators will object by hg
- I'm Moving to Canada by Liberation Learning
- Stop Saying Bush Won by TocqueDeville
- Top 10 Reasons Republicans & Conservatives Should NOT Support George.W. Bush by Thinking Republican
- Cheers and Jeers: THURSDAY by Bill in Portland Maine
- And So It Begins by julie37
- GOP Raising $100 mil for SS Piratization Ad Campaign by firedoglake
- View from an outsourcer by tyronen
- Chicago Tribune Editor Says Gary Webb Was Right by jazzmaniac
- Transgender is NOT fair game by lilithvf1998
- Religious News Round--Jan 3, 2005 by pastordan
- This Weeks Fascist America News 01-02-05 by Tomtech
- BREAKING: Tribune Fires Armstrong Williams by Hoffmania
- Breaking: Biden Says Draft Real Possibility by Liberation Learning
- WHAT WE S H O U L D DO! by Athenian
- Why Chris Bowers is Right about the WoT by Descrates
- Process Note: Today's Missed Opportunity by Kagro X
- The GOP Bloodbath: Even the army is debating the war. by Eternal Hope
- Podvin on Democrats & Abortion by Maryscott OConnor
- Gen'l Odom on Terrorism by teacherken
- Why are we still talking of Fraudsters and Electoral Reform? by wanderindiana
- I hate George McGovern. by PBJ Diddy
- The Top Ten War Profiteers of 2004 by Delaware Dem
- A Flaming Bag of Dog Poop by ttagaris
- Al Franken on the election--very worth reading by lungfish
- The shrinking American Meritocracy by YankInUK
- Disturbing NYT article on Guantanamo by Bob Johnson
- Bush arms U.S. troops with spitballs by VirginiaDem
- Nerd Network News - Week of December 27 - January 2 by SeattleLiberal
- Social Security Opponent Matsui (Rep-D) Dead by CHFDigital
- WA Gov Post Recount Analysis in Seattle Times by lapin
- This Week in Fascism 1-5-04 by Tomtech
- Investing Party Capital and a Poll by Meteor Blades
- Yet Another Former Bush Cabinet Member Comes Out of the Republican Closet by Spiral Stairs
- Homogenized America. by Pounder
- Newsie's Week In Reviewsies: Formerly Known As Best Diaries You Didn't Read by Newsie8200
- Tenet Scapegoat Memo Leaked by lapin
- BREAKING[W/POLL]: Hey you. Yeah, you. Tell me.... by Raybin
- Dems to screen torture vids for Alberto? by Johnny Gentle Famous Crooner
- On Kos, none dare call 'em fascists. by RabidNation
- Religious Right: no to Tsunami Relief by Unawen
- Social Security: There is NO crisis by Bob Brigham
- Big L liberalism & the purple circle by Liberation Learning
- Iraqi PM Allawi sets stage for US attack on Syria or Iran by KdmfromPhila
# most rewarding readers
1 Tomtech
2 Eternal Hope
3 Liberation Learning
4 MJB
5 SusanHu
6 tmo
7 lilithvf1998
8 doug r
9 Carnacki
10 pontificator
11 Maryscott OConnor
12 bumblebums
13 Boppy
14 roseeriter
15 shetquaker
16 RHunter
17 Dump Terry McAuliffe
18 Plutonium Page
19 realitybased
20 Raybin
# most recommended authors
1 georgia10
2 Bill in Portland Maine
3 pastordan
4 Chris Bowers
5 lapin
6 Maura in VA
7 ssteuer
8 pamindurham
9 ColdFusion04
10 Liberation Learning
11 tyronen
12 blackmahn
13 AdmiralNaismith
14 VirginiaDem
15 wanderindiana
16 pronin2
17 BooMan23
18 dday
19 Sorceress Sarah
20 sfgary
Week ending |
Number of Diaries Posted |
Number of Diary Authors |
Number of Readers Recommending Diaries |
Number of Recommended Diaries |
Number of highly recommended (n>=30) Diaries |
5-Nov |
2504 |
1591 |
2694 |
1454 |
57 |
12-Nov |
2286 |
1262 |
2943 |
1611 |
89 |
19-Nov |
1983 |
1042 |
2786 |
1440 |
88 |
26-Nov |
1340 |
762 |
2227 |
1004 |
78 |
3-Dec |
1366 |
810 |
2531 |
1096 |
87 |
10-Dec |
1543 |
876 |
2481 |
1271 |
82 |
17-Dec |
1533 |
822 |
2451 |
1247 |
95 |
24-Dec |
1263 |
674 |
2322 |
1028 |
86 |
31-Dec |
997 |
542 |
1919 |
864 |
80 |
7-Jan |
1393 |
750 |
2274 |
1185 |
98 |
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