High Impact Diaries - July 19, 2008

Welcome to feelfree (uid 170734) who registered at 2008-07-20 05:30:06 EDT, the most recent of 72 in the preceding 24 hours.

Yesterday 214 Kogs posted 214 diaries of which 208 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 2623 recommending readers and viewed by 8351; 130 diaries were recommended by 10 or more readers, 60 by 30 or more, and 23 by 100 or more.  Commenters (2203) visited 214 diaries; 138 had 10 or more commenters, 52 had 30 or more, and 12 had 100 or more.

Impact statistics from all 214 diaries.
min = 0.01, median = 0.185, average = 0.50, max = 6.38, total =  106.7 bharns
r50 = 15 (at 2.16 bharns)

Recommendations and comments were collected Sun Jul 20 06:10:04 2008 EDT; diaries posted less than 24 hours before that remained open for recommendation at that time.  

Links to on site search for yesterday, a year ago, and the last 6 hours are also included.

2008-07-19 00:00:59 - 2008-07-19 23:59:08
DailyKos diaries = 214;  214 per day;  8.9 per hour
Active Kogs: 3526 (writes a diary, recommends a diary, or comments on a diary)
Lurkers: 4894 (only view diaries)

Kogs who	comment	recommend	write a diary	view a diary	CRW only	CRWV only	all
comment	2203	1322	191	2171	807	12	117
recommend	1322	2623	118	2568	1300	37	117
write	191	118	214	212	22		117
view	2171	2568	212	8351		4894	117

Diaries

diaries with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	214	208	130	60	23
commentators	214	214	138	52	12
connections	214	208	181	92	25
views	214	214	213	208	133

Diaries with date of publication not same as sid date: 1

Impact statistics from all 214 diaries.
min = 0.01, median = 0.185, average = 0.50, max = 6.38, total =  106.7 bharns
r50 = 15 (at 2.16 bharns)

Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader  or writer) pairs: 12769
Maximum possible such pairs: 3526 x 214 = 754564
Network Density (observed/possible):  1.692%
Average degree (links/user) = 12769/3526 = 3.621

tags: approved|workspace|cleanup|quickjobs|search|tag guidelines

Number of distinct tags: 96237
Number of tag size classes: 769
Most often used tag: Barack Obama (36777 diaries)
Singleton tags: 59714 (attached to only one diary)
Orphaned tags: 329 (attached to deleted diaries)
n50: 280 (number of tags accounting for 50% of tagged diaries)
r50: 662 (number of diaries tagged by the tag just exceeding the n50 level)

• Up to 150 diaries, those with impact > 0.15, are shown below.
• The diaries are sorted by number of recommendations (nrec); those in bold were on the front page recommended list.
• The TableTools extension for the Firefox browser allows you to sort by any column.
• For a more complete description of the lists and statistics see this diary.

rank	nrec	ncom	tators	cnx	viewers	impact	Diary	Author	EDT
1	587	320	191	697	4556	6.38	"We're F#$@ed"	MLDB	15:41
2	563	332	174	664	3911	6.11	It is time to stop defending Obama	clammyc	10:35
3	359	250	139	440	2420	3.94	Nevada GOP state convention CANCELED due to a lack of interest	SanJoseLady	20:02
4	334	405	209	460	1840	3.83	Major WH Blunder: Emails al-Maliki Story to Reporters	turneresq	16:19
5	312	230	132	397	2658	3.47	McCain Responds: What al Maliki says doesn't matter [updated]	FleetAdmiralJ	17:16
6	303	270	126	370	1354	3.32	Just in: Iraq PM supports Obama withdrawal plan	karpaty lviv	08:00
7	298	204	111	352	1621	3.23	Obama Video Address to Netroots Nation	Joe Rospars	22:13
8	271	96	65	288	1152	2.85	Steve Gilliard on Leaving Iraq	Meteor Blades	17:13
9	261	291	123	331	2094	2.90	Al Gore in Austin ☺☺ - Barack in Kuwait and AFG - (UPDATED w/ Video and MORE Photos)	Al Rodgers	10:48
10	255	235	119	329	1812	2.85	British PM Sides with Obama	DanK Is Back	21:02
11	246	140	120	298	1024	2.69	UPDATE #2: I'm Deploying	USArmyParatrooper	17:55
12	238	195	99	308	2221	2.66	Republicans Lose 1 Million Registered Voters	lapin	00:34
13	230	98	65	251	640	2.44	Gramm, McCain, Abramoff and the Corruptionist Party...	dengre	02:13
14	208	116	81	263	2333	2.31	July 18th, 2008: Obama wins the presidency.	shuffle	17:19
15	202	144	81	247	1251	2.22	"Iraqi spokesman's" "clarification" came via CENTCOM, and other ridiculousness (Digg update)	VirginiaDem	22:59
16	198	145	74	238	1279	2.16	He's Too Good for Politics	thereisnospoon	14:06
17	156	143	73	197	1205	1.73	O Boy! It gets worse. More embarassing Al-Maliki Quotes & Poll	Excelscior1	15:57
18	150	180	76	181	833	1.64	the revolution will have a zydeco soundtrack...	JeffLieber	07:45
19	150	107	50	173	1097	1.62	NetrootsNation Photopalooza!	PerfectStormer	13:18
20	135	139	65	151	395	1.44	IGTNT: "He walked into the valley of death and didn't flinch."	joyful	19:31
21	103	316	122	189	1454	1.35	Breaking: Obama in Afghanistan (updated)	Steagle of Death Metal	03:45
22	103	78	48	126	557	1.13	My interview with Bob Barr	dday	17:39
23	103	66	23	110	394	1.08	Organizing for Change: Obama Campaign at Netroots Nation Liveblog	SamGrahamFelsen	12:06
24	93	120	36	98	229	0.98	Final Update Pictures!  Liveblog of NFTT.	Dania Audax	15:00
25	89	52	30	99	402	0.95	Repost: Maya Stumps for Obama in Florida (w/video)	jenontheshore	00:37
26	80	202	47	97	232	0.88	Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 4.22	Kayakbiker	08:58
27	73	82	48	111	646	0.87	VIDEO: US Troops Give Obama A Standing Ovation in Kuwait!	msblucow	18:43
28	70	68	25	81	478	0.75	The Real Reason For McCain's Friday Night Phil Gramm Dump	m16eib	22:47
29	56	84	44	81	395	0.65	Bob Barr at NN!	Jerome a Paris	16:31
30	54	52	23	58	236	0.57	While You Were Drinkin' & Partyin' & Convenin'...	RenaRF	17:20
31	53	37	20	57	187	0.56	NN08 in the News & on the Blogs Roundup #2	vbdietz	16:39
32	53	63	42	86	642	0.65	DNC Gets Tough on HRC Donors: "It's over. Barack Obama won."	jkennerl	19:10
33	53	40	21	61	223	0.57	Breaking:  Netroots Nation going green	A Siegel	22:16
34	51	216	59	83	210	0.63	What's for Dinner: The Liquid Dinner/Cocktail Edition	Asinus Asinum Fricat	18:33
35	50	118	63	97	550	0.67	Obama's brand new ride.	rapcetera	22:23
36	49	274	54	71	153	0.57	WYFP -- (Im)Patient Edition	Cali Scribe	19:32
37	48	23	19	60	246	0.53	NEW: Obama memo: Obama leading, McCain following	Drdemocrat	14:51
38	43	91	25	51	127	0.47	Libraries, the Last True Bastion of Real Patriotism	Granny Doc	14:25
39	42	50	25	52	164	0.46	1930	New Deal democrat	12:34
40	40	131	35	57	225	0.46	Netroots Nation Live: Watch Nancy Pelosi AND AL GORE	terminal3	10:24
41	39	153	58	79	271	0.54	Pittsburgh is it--NN09	highacidity	22:16
42	39	77	30	58	261	0.46	Netroots Nation Tells Me Religion Has No Relevance To Politics	Troutfishing	11:40
43	39	50	31	66	491	0.49	Major Setback For McCain In Ohio	HippyWitch	17:13
44	39	41	17	50	103	0.44	To fight global warming, we also need to rethink transportation	desmoinesdem	08:20
45	39	31	22	52	254	0.44	Wisconsin Village Covered in Shopping Bags	kr in wis	13:01
46	37	144	66	82	566	0.54	I Just Spent The Last Seven Hours Handculfed	webranding	02:10
47	37	47	30	55	131	0.44	The George W. Bush Presidential Disaster Museum	lampwicke	09:51
48	36	140	29	57	370	0.44	Nancy Pelosi: dodging sniper fire (UPDATE: Al Gore swoops in to provide cover)	occams hatchet	10:57
49	36	42	23	51	149	0.42	The General Decline of Just About Everything	MadScientist	17:59
50	36	15	14	43	131	0.39	Hildebrand: 3-Day "Massive" Voter Registration Drive for Labor Day Weekend	The Field	15:25
51	35	32	18	48	377	0.40	Calling all Kossacks - We need your help	Lava20	18:44
52	35	20	13	41	99	0.38	Single Payer to HCAN: We Will Not Not Be Listened To!	DrSteveB	02:04
53	33	33	12	38	114	0.36	OR-Sen Jeff Merkley in Austin with Photos!	sarahlane	16:17
54	32	70	21	40	106	0.35	Top Comments 7-19-08 -- Kaizen Edition	carolita	21:59
55	32	18	15	40	285	0.35	What I said at NN today (plus Samantha Power and McJoan)	GregMitch	19:45
56	31	68	22	48	154	0.37	What is happening to farming ... and to your world.	Scaredhuman	20:17
57	31	62	32	50	220	0.38	"Illegal immigrant" killed in PA	marina	09:29
58	31	37	16	38	161	0.34	Daily Kos University	plf515	09:04
59	30	93	28	53	240	0.38	"Family Values"- take a baseball bat to your Gay Son	alexnovo	01:16
60	30	16	10	33	270	0.32	NN:  The One Who Stood Up	Mean Rachel	19:59
61	29	30	13	35	270	0.32	A totally unimportant diary	teacherken	08:37
62	29	34	14	36	175	0.32	Darcy Burner and political star power	Chico David RN	22:29
63	28	181	43	62	493	0.41	"Registering voters?" Apartment Manager: "We'll have you arrested"	Colonial82	23:24
64	28	58	22	38	164	0.32	PHYSICS, (C)1939	arodb	18:40
65	28	44	28	45	364	0.34	Something Strange	edscan	20:23
66	28	33	25	44	382	0.34	VIDEO: McCain Ad Hits Back On Maliki	Stranahan	21:47
67	27	27	16	38	176	0.31	A Very Big Deal	dansac	16:16
68	27	27	15	32	126	0.29	Montana judge saves the wolves! (with update)	UTvoter	20:21
69	26	208	51	70	430	0.43	"At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop..." Might be more than it looks	second gen	13:18
70	26	66	22	41	193	0.32	Robin Hussein Hood Smiles - Obama on Taxes	speck tater	16:19
71	26	32	20	37	240	0.30	Everyone you have ever known, everyone who has ever lived and died...	calipygian	21:04
72	25	58	25	42	128	0.31	Sucking it up as my job was sent to Vietnam	dearmurray	15:16
73	25	15	11	28	54	0.27	High Impact DIaries - July 18, 2008	jotter	09:43
74	25	11	9	27	73	0.26	Future of Food Panel at Netroots Nation	mataliandy	02:07
75	25	9	9	28	81	0.27	Update on Rusul and her surgery	dancewater	15:11
76	24	137	38	54	273	0.35	Am I the only one frustrated with Nancy Pelosi at NN08?	dd123	20:13
77	24	71	30	47	373	0.32	Harold Fox News Ford Was Not Heckled	davefromqueens	21:28
78	24	12	10	29	62	0.26	Fixing Elections	Karen Hedwig Backman	13:49
79	23	77	32	45	168	0.31	Burning Issues: Heating With Wood	Stranded Wind	06:34
80	22	48	30	44	319	0.30	GOP congressional nominee barred from Republican events  -- "Too liberal"	salvador	12:45
81	22	29	9	29	145	0.25	Yes or No, Up or Down, Barack	jimstaro	07:25
82	22	19	17	32	307	0.26	I may be paranoid -- but -- watch the Bush mob now	Old Redneck	08:19
83	21	173	45	50	199	0.32	A Modest Proposal: Phrases that should be thrown under the bus	MrPlow	02:34
84	21	26	18	34	385	0.26	ABC/Atlantic:  Is McCain Using Subliminal Msging?	Setrak	10:57
85	21	13	8	27	171	0.23	The Liberal Democratic rapture is coming! BEWARE!	dopper0189	13:51
86	20	66	18	26	100	0.22	Chemical Weapons III. How Nerve agents work	Translator	20:35
87	20	55	32	44	182	0.29	Michael Savage is a Savage Beast	franziskaner	08:32
88	20	52	20	29	82	0.23	GOOD MORNING DAILY KOS -- Weekend Edition!	maxomai	12:16
89	19	34	10	22	65	0.20	Dean’s Register for Change in New Orleans	gildareed	00:36
90	19	21	11	24	76	0.21	McCain has no Foreign Policy credibility	gendjinn	15:25
91	19	15	9	25	158	0.21	"Toto, I don't think we're in Creationist Kansas anymore!"	chrisblask	00:30
92	18	12	7	21	109	0.19	UK must vet US denials	charlieg	19:41
93	18	11	4	20	131	0.19	July 19, 1935: When things just happen	iampunha	06:47
94	18	10	7	22	46	0.20	ApachesVote.org Registers Voters in AZ-01	EricAZ	17:07
95	17	12	11	26	159	0.20	Cheney Screwed Us	StuHunter	15:59
96	17	12	9	24	112	0.20	It's Howard Time!  (A Photoblog)	Crashing Vor	00:00
97	17	9	8	18	84	0.18	TexasKaos Netroots Nation After Party Saturday July 19th	jimmyjack	11:43
98	16	31	23	34	180	0.23	GWB adopts Obama's Iraq Timeline Strategy and the MSM Reports	dvogel001	09:36
99	16	24	14	22	65	0.18	America's Health Insurers to the Rescue . . .	Actuary4Change	13:12
100	16	12	7	21	72	0.18	Electric & Green by 2018	Detroit Mark	11:35
101	15	51	28	42	326	0.26	Hillary's Petition	menodoc	17:25
102	15	17	9	22	213	0.18	Obama Blazes New Electoral Trail in West	eyesonobama	18:12
103	14	60	17	27	95	0.19	Why Nancy let me down	D Wreck	15:48
104	14	28	11	20	96	0.16	Why I'm donating to Obama again (update)	rhubarb	10:10
105	14	27	18	26	73	0.18	Ever tried to reach a horizon?	Tin hat mafia	11:19
106	14	24	14	28	213	0.19	George Will and 'Too big to fail'	shpilk	15:21
107	14	11	7	18	74	0.16	Pseudo Ex-Terrorist to Advise Texas Law Enforcement	Frederick Clarkson	16:01
108	13	28	23	33	476	0.21	McCain Expects to Lose	RandySF	12:42
109	13	16	15	24	81	0.17	75% against discrimination towards gays in military	Titan1024	11:32
110	13	12	10	20	140	0.16	Great Moments in Stupidity:  July 19, 1870	EugeneF	11:52
111	12	131	40	41	180	0.24	NYTimes publishes Israeli nuclear war advocate	Vespertine	09:52
112	12	33	22	28	135	0.18	Responding to a Prayer Request	cactusflinthead	12:43
113	11	32	18	24	187	0.16	I wanna stir up some sh**. So this "corporate media" thing...	snafubar	23:12
114	11	31	18	23	79	0.15	Kossacks that Brew II	Brad007	09:22
115	11	13	11	22	273	0.15	Markos Moulitsas, David Gregory, and Byron York	Kaneblues	06:32
116	9	49	22	28	301	0.17	Maliki Remarks "mistranslated"?	zizi	21:44
117	8	97	28	33	156	0.19	China taking over Africa: Is this true?	lump1	04:03
118	8	47	21	26	259	0.15	The Obama drop.  (In the price of oil)	prius04	19:30
119	7	55	25	29	196	0.16	I Like Austin	slinkerwink	00:42
120	6	295	91	95	692	0.50	Once again, Keith Olbermann has been proven wrong......by his own words	Ctron	00:16
121	6	99	46	49	92	0.26	Open Thread and Diary Rescue	Diary Rescue	23:01
122	6	71	29	33	232	0.18	The Email Lies Keep Pouring in About Obama	mouser68	11:49
123	5	30	26	31	171	0.17	Novak says middle doesn't trust Obama	Kentucky Progress	14:08
124	3	266	133	136	747	0.71	The biggest political fraud in my lifetime: Barack Obama	adthomas80	14:35
125	1	131	39	40	588	0.21	Apology to readers of Daily Kos	David Model	12:07
126		151	79	79	452	0.41	AL GORE IS BECOMING A CARTOON FIGURE and doing Obama NO good	arthurone	13:56

Impact total:   99.4

 rank - Order based on number of recommendations.
 nrec - Number of recommendations
 ncom - Number of comments
 tator - Number of commenters or commenTators (ow, ... sorry, I know).
 cnx - Number of connections, which is the total of commenters and recommenders, without duplication.
 impact - Calculated currently using nrec and cnx
 Diary - A hyperlink to the Daily Kos diary displaying the title.
 Author - Hyperlink to the diary authors Daily Kos home page.
 Time - Post time shown as time of day for daily lists and date for weekly posts.

NB: Some diaries on this list were still open for recommendation at the time it was compiled.

Please bring any errors to my attention -- jotter

Bonus Feature: One Year Ago In Daily Kos

2007-07-20 00:04:15 - 2007-07-20 23:40:52
DailyKos diaries = 284;  284 per day; 11.8 per hour
Active Kogs: 3688 (writes a diary, recommends a diary, or comments on a diary)

Kogs who	comment	recommend	write a diary	only	all
comment	2236	1360	234	774	132
recommend	1360	2765	135	1402	132
write	234	135	284	47	132

Diaries

diaries with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	284	269	125	41	12
commentators	284	278	154	42	9
connections	284	269	203	79	14

Diaries with date of publication not same as sid date: 1

Impact statistics from all 284 diaries.
min = 0.01, median = 0.116, average = 0.34, max = 8.69, total =   96.7 bharns
r50 = 9 (at 1.96 bharns)

Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader  or writer) pairs: 11800
Maximum possible such pairs: 3688 x 284 = 1047392
Network Density (observed/possible):  1.127%
Average degree (links/user) = 11800/3688 = 3.200

rank	nrec	ncom	tators	cnx	impact	Diary	Author	EDT
1	819	284	183	897	8.69	Dear 11,000 JetBlue Workers:	jeepdad	14:29
2	768	939	340	956	8.48	WARNING: A Real Dictatorship Coming!	slw0606	09:47
3	506	380	220	655	5.66	Olbermann Moves To Top Of Bush's Enemies List	Six Degrees of Aaron	08:48
4	435	256	130	505	4.70	Viewer Numbers: DailyKos vs. O'Reilly	kath25	14:14
5	405	459	167	493	4.44	Coup	cskendrick	12:15
6	404	632	196	523	4.52	Bush declares executive privilege nullifies contempt says F/U to Congress	FishOutofWater	00:57
7	386	151	114	430	4.11	An Open Letter to JetBlue	wiscmass	14:38
8	351	214	92	394	3.75	Frameshop: The Most Repugnant Argument...Ever	Jeffrey Feldman	08:30
9	301	58	40	317	3.16	Dear Jet Blue: DKos Saved My Wife's Life	The Gimp	19:29
10	150	477	177	276	1.96	Washington Post:  OMG, Hillary has b00bs!	Geekesque	11:12

Double Bonus Election Year Bonanza Feature: One Election Cycle Ago in Daily Kos

2006-07-19 00:06:41 - 2006-07-19 23:53:38
DailyKos diaries = 320;  320 per day; 13.3 per hour
Active Kogs: 3244 (writes a diary, recommends a diary, or comments on a diary)

Kogs who	comment	recommend	write a diary	only	all
comment	2174	1218	269	812	125
recommend	1218	2244	132	1019	125
write	269	132	320	44	125

Diaries

diaries with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	320	296	122	31	14
commentators	320	316	156	35	8
connections	320	296	218	69	15

Diaries with date of publication not same as sid date: 0

Impact statistics from all 320 diaries.
min = 0.00, median = 0.101, average = 0.26, max = 5.68, total =   82.8 bharns
r50 = 13 (at 1.52 bharns)

Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader  or writer) pairs: 10366
Maximum possible such pairs: 3244 x 320 = 1038080
Network Density (observed/possible):  0.999%
Average degree (links/user) = 10366/3244 = 3.195

rank	nrec	ncom	tators	cnx	impact	Diary	Author	EDT
1	522	428	187	621	5.68	Red Cow Truck (Update)	Miss Blue	12:56
2	483	291	163	563	5.22	Harkin:  Bush Is Not Our Moral Ayatollah	BarbinMD	20:38
3	425	242	130	487	4.57	Pat Tillman's Death: Shocking Army Quotes	zenbowl	17:21
4	349	306	191	448	3.90	I am smartr then bill kristol	Hunter	20:26
5	304	200	101	351	3.28	Kossack Exclusive from John Dean	jennix	15:48
6	263	447	210	426	3.23	Tony Snow Launches Racist Attack Against Helen Thomas	lapin	10:30
7	234	209	88	268	2.52	Bush Crossed Moral Boundary with Stem Cell Veto (Photos)	krazypuppy	18:48
8	200	285	120	273	2.28	Stagnant Wages Starting to Tick-Off Employees	bonddad	07:51
9	195	504	202	331	2.45	What Do We Do?	pastordan	11:24
10	190	180	74	227	2.07	Chemicals in your NH Maple Syrup, Courtesy of Republicans	Republic Not Empire	08:27

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