High Impact Posts: December 18, 2011

Welcome to mastersdegreeprogramsonline (user_id 328372) who registered at 2011-12-19 04:57:58 EST, the most recent of 80 in the preceding 24 hours.

Yesterday 158 Kogs published 179 posts of which 173 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 1750 recommending readers and viewed by 5370; 106 posts were recommended by 10 or more readers, 46 by 30 or more, and 17 by 100 or more. Commenters (1480) visited 179 posts; 85 had 10 or more commenters, 33 had 30 or more, and 2 had 100 or more.

Impact statistics from all 179 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.159, average = 0.35, max = 2.66, total =   61.8 bharns
r50 = 21 (at 0.87 bharns)

Recommendations and comments were collected Mon Dec 19 05:00:06 2011 EST

2011-12-18 00:00:02 - 2011-12-18 23:58:02
DailyKos posts = 179;  179 per day;  7.5 per hour
Active Kogs: 2377 (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)
Lurkers: 3027 (only view posts)

Kogs who	comment	recommend	write a post	view a post	CRW only	CRWV only	all
comment	1480	858	153	1468	541	7	72
recommend	858	1750	72	1724	892	22	72
write	153	72	158	157	5		72
view	1468	1724	157	5370		3027	72

Posts

posts with >	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	179	173	106	46	17
commentators	179	179	85	33	2
connections	179	173	136	62	20
views	179	179	179	154	64

Impact statistics from all 179 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.159, average = 0.35, max = 2.66, total =   61.8 bharns
r50 = 21 (at 0.87 bharns)

Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader  or writer) pairs: 6950
Maximum possible such pairs: 2377 x 158 = 375566
Network Density (observed/possible):  1.851%
Average degree (links/user) = 6950/2377 = 2.924

tags: approved|workspace|cleanup|quickjobs|search|tag user_guidelines
Number of distinct tags: 270076
Number of tag size classes: 1148
Most often used tag: ('Barack Obama',) (73589 posts)
Singleton tags: 180570 (attached to only one post)
n50: 571 (number of tags accounting for 50% of tagged posts)
r50: 742 (number of posts tagged by the tag just exceeding the n50 level)

• Up to 150 posts, those with impact > 0.15, are shown below.
• The posts are sorted by number of recommendations (nrec); those in bold were on the front page recommended list.
• The TableTools2 extension for the Firefox browser allows you to sort, copy and visualize tables.
• For a more complete description of the lists and statistics see this post.

rank	nrec	ncom	viewers	impact	post	Author	EST
1	252	119	870	2.66	This Is Going To Take A Long Time to Fix	Giles Goat Boy	21:12
2	233	74	1222	2.47	UPDATE w/Video: Researcher Finds Ancient Tools Deep Below the Waters of Lake Huron	Muskegon Critic	01:19
3	198	91	868	2.11	Drawing adds five more life-time subscribers to Daily Kos	Meteor Blades	17:11
4	195	54	699	2.05	Kossack Barbwire has Passed Away	The Fat Lady Sings	23:16
5	183	135	453	2.03	How the GOP stole America	Mark Sumner	09:00
6	166	187	1178	1.86	Bad Newt Jumps the Proverbial	AnnetteK	14:52
7	142	34	372	1.50	A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse	Michael Moore	03:53
8	142	142	354	1.65	The failure of Austerity	Hunter	11:00
9	126	59	731	1.37	House GOP to REJECT payroll tax cut...Admits because it will help Obama!!	SemDem	21:51
10	125	93	362	1.32	#sekritarmy debates (with pooties, woozles and critters)	whoknu	15:16
11	115	65	430	1.22	Solar Energy is making some News ...	jamess	13:09
12	113	83	271	1.21	Daily Kos: Came for the politics, survived thanks to the community	Kaili Joy Gray	13:00
13	106	103	376	1.14	Occupy the Progressive Movement	robert cruickshank	14:52
14	105	50	375	1.11	Confessions of a Retail Worker: The week before Christmas on the dock.	Lightbulb	14:22
15	104	182	613	1.19	Updated: Video of Obituary-Breaking Kim Jong-il Has Died	Horace Boothroyd III	22:08
16	102	37	417	1.10	The last man to die for a mistake:  David Hickman	teacherken	09:40
17	101	122	175	1.12	Sending some hope	Denise Oliver Velez	18:00
18	87	152	278	0.91	Kos Katalogue Members (& Others):  A Warrior Woman Needs Our Help	Aji	15:54
19	86	46	375	0.92	Vaclav Havel has died.	SneakySnu	06:41
20	83	92	170	0.87	Dawn Chorus:  I have always relied on the kindness of strangers	lineatus	09:00
21	79	43	433	0.85	Tired of reading Lifetime Subscription Drive diaries? Me, too...	Angie in WA State	00:47
22	79	27	435	0.85	The 99%: We’re Not Even Livestock	swellsman	06:58
23	73	53	186	0.78	History for Kossacks: A Pagan Christmas to All!	Unitary Moonbat	21:52
24	72	157	239	0.78	KosAbility: Thyroid 101	Chinton	17:00
25	66	121	200	0.69	DK Subscriptions and the nOOb	Glen The Plumber	14:00
26	66	55	907	0.75	Cover for TIME Magazine's "Person of the Year" vs. Original Photograph. Note the Glaring Difference?	The Troubadour	22:30
27	61	21	150	0.64	Ancient China: The Bronze Age	Ojibwa	10:55
28	59	132	222	0.77	Sunday Talk Shows	Meteor Blades	00:00
29	54	62	229	0.58	The Purpose for a Stroke	brothers and sisters at dailykos	20:05
30	51	62	171	0.62	Will California hold the line against neofeudalism?	Dante Atkins	20:00
31	47	24	99	0.49	I'm living with war everyday	BOHICA	09:16
32	45	263	505	0.88	North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has died	Laura Clawson	22:32
33	43	97	215	0.47	Climate Change vs. Peak Oil	barath	13:07
34	43	23	109	0.46	cold day hiking	b l u e y e d a c e 2	13:40
35	40	32	173	0.43	I hate losing stuff	l a d y w i t h a f a n	17:21
36	40	25	221	0.42	I was going to private message everyone here...	kirbybruno	20:51
37	39	21	125	0.41	Occupy Wall Street:Video in the Paddy Wagon with Bishop George Packard	Horace Boothroyd III	13:53
38	39	286	459	0.97	There's no great mystery: Tim Tebow is a great athlete	Laurence Lewis	16:00
39	39	22	101	0.44	Do it for the toons!	Tom Tomorrow	22:00
40	37	214	75	0.41	J Town: Got Post? December  18, 2011	JanF	10:30
41	37	25	99	0.39	Sunday Bread - Almond Christmas Pudding, with Grand Marnier Butter	Something the Dog Said	10:38
42	35	16	118	0.37	It's official: I'm on the ballot	Asher Heimermann	18:27
43	34	46	98	0.36	Top Comments: Cultural Proficiency Edition	Dragon5616	22:00
44	31	66	268	0.42	Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Mother of Mercy, could this be the end of Newt edition	Mark Sumner	02:41
45	31	31	113	0.33	Battlefield America: Is Gitmo in Your Future?	teacherken	11:14
46	30	23	281	0.33	Austerity:  Hunter missed half of the story	John Chapman	16:27
47	29	36	187	0.34	Health Cost for Boomers Will Bankrupt Medicare.  NOT!!!	ATexican	12:45
48	28	167	66	0.31	What's Happenin'? 12.18.11	poligirl	10:00
49	28	20	65	0.29	Week's High Impact Posts: December 10-16, 2011	jotter	11:25
50	28	30	79	0.30	Literature for Kossacks: Vaclav Havel	pico	18:03
51	28	16	70	0.30	Trans mountain Tar Sands Pipeline project gets infrastructure, more tankers, long term contracts	Lefty Coaster	12:32
52	27	21	51	0.28	High Impact Posts: December 17, 2011	jotter	11:21
53	27	113	124	0.44	Open Thread for Night Owls: Reading list	Meteor Blades	23:30
54	27	16	87	0.29	Breaking: Senator Menendez makes 32 Senators for DOMA repeal	Scott Wooledge	10:50
55	26	45	65	0.27	Came for the community, stayed for the politics	betson08	12:38
56	24	14	112	0.25	Trying to cast a shadow	T h o u s a n d w a t t s	02:28
57	23	19	37	0.24	Overnight News Digest	ScottyUrb	23:58
58	21	17	71	0.22	Lifting the digital curtain - a white male asks support for people of color	teacherken	06:58
59	21	54	62	0.23	Pique the Geek 20111218:  The Science of NCIS	Translator	21:00
60	21	51	179	0.31	Why Didn't David Gregory Ask Nikki Haley About Her Scandal?	TDC In Florida	18:49
61	21	48	49	0.23	WAYWO: Holiday gifts	Temmoku	20:02
62	21	43	136	0.26	Bradley Manning Defense	Horace Boothroyd III	11:30
63	21	6	97	0.23	Unpublished Letters: Bernstein, Green is more than tacking on renewables	A Siegel	12:15
64	20	36	121	0.24	will the 1% listen when poverty hits close to home?	teacherken	09:10
65	20	21	89	0.22	Sunday All Day Brunch: Wrapping the Cat	michelewln	11:59
66	20	7	70	0.21	And then what happened?	rserven	10:59
67	20	17	59	0.21	Internet Censorship Bill SOPA is Not Dead Yet	Calee4nia	16:12
68	19	25	87	0.20	Hosts Files (Or How To Be Your Own DNS)	Cendojr	13:51
69	19	21	97	0.23	You Can Finish Writing This Diary...	Jekylln Hyde	16:59
70	19	16	65	0.21	Vaclav Havel Has Died.	commonmass	15:25
71	19	14	29	0.20	Hill Country Ride for AIDS - do you need a tax deduction for 2011?	a n o t h e r d e m o c r a t	19:04
72	18	8	82	0.20	Scandal: MF Global Stole Billions to Make Speculative Bets	The Anomaly	19:25
73	18	5	66	0.19	Meanwhile, 650+ dead in Philippines	BruinKid	16:55
74	18	4	108	0.19	The Twelve Lies of Christmas	Avenging Angel	11:55
75	17	88	163	0.27	(PPP) Iowa:  Paul 23, Romney 20, Gingrich 14	Scarce	23:37
76	17	82	117	0.32	Midday open thread	Laurence Lewis	15:00
77	17	27	127	0.19	THANKS everyone for the huge response, re: PhD studying online communities interested in Daily Kos	msoha	19:29
78	17	21	71	0.22	The fog of the climate change wars	Matt Wuerker	08:30
79	16	19	72	0.17	Department of Justice Cites Seattle Police Department for un-Constitutional behavior	hannah	07:04
80	16	29	104	0.20	Boehner opposes payroll tax cut extension after supporting it	Christian Dem in NC	14:10
81	16	24	29	0.17	The Inoculation Project 12/18/11: Energy Transfer Through a Food Chain and Cells	n e r v o u s n e l l i e	10:00
82	16	16	116	0.19	GLADD Tears Into ABC for "Work It"	Horace Boothroyd III	16:11
83	16	8	41	0.17	Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)	Ed Tracey	11:40
84	15	120	32	0.17	GUS: A Heartfelt Thank You to my Secret Santa	Safina	11:49
85	15	10	46	0.16	Sheriff Joe: America’s Worst Sheriff	notdarkyet	15:38
86	15	5	71	0.16	National Defense Authorization Act -- 13 Senators voted NO	jamess	21:34
87	14	21	40	0.16	Shock and Awe and a Very Big Thanks	r a c h e l t r a c k s	21:00
88	14	14	67	0.15	Yo!  Scroogey People!	nannyboz	14:43
89	13	11	103	0.15	Congress is not a Lost Cause.	LeftOfYou	20:10
90	10	60	147	0.18	Two Disturbing Stories About Israel	ramara	13:28
91	6	55	87	0.19	What's your most memorable college football bowl game?	Chitown Kev	16:58
92	4	76	250	0.19	How you, too, can figure out that Obama betrays the 99%, and works for the 1%, first and foremost.	metamars	13:18
93		186	310	0.32	In Defense of Ron Paul	vector56	09:57

Impact total:   55.5

 nrec - Number of recommendations
  ncom - Number of comments
  tator - Number of commenters or commenTators (ow, ... sorry, I know).
  impact - Calculated currently using nrec and cnx
  post - A hyperlink to the Daily Kos post displaying the title.
  Author - Hyperlink to the post authors Daily Kos home page.
  Time - Post time shown as time of day for daily lists and date for weekly posts.
   

Please bring any errors to my attention -- jotter

Bonus Feature: One Year Ago In Daily Kos

2010-12-18 00:00:47 - 2010-12-18 23:52:43
DailyKos posts = 155;  155 per day;  6.5 per hour
Active Kogs: 3675 (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

Kogs who	comment	recommend	write a post	only	all
comment	2472	1356	138	1044	66
recommend	1356	2554	67	1197	66
write	138	67	144	5	66

Posts

posts with >	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	155	131	89	47	16
commentators	155	155	120	60	16
connections	155	131	137	87	23

Impact statistics from all 155 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.218, average = 0.61, max = 6.97, total =   95.2 bharns
r50 = 10 (at 2.06 bharns)

Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader  or writer) pairs: 11669
Maximum possible such pairs: 3675 x 144 = 529200
Network Density (observed/possible):  2.205%
Average degree (links/user) = 11669/3675 = 3.175

rank	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	EST
1	609	1031	6.97	Rachel Maddow: "This is the President's victory and his base will reward him for it."	E c l e c t a b l o g	18:46
2	571	889	6.10	The Triumph of a Movement!	Scott Wooledge	11:49
3	466	461	5.15	Thank You To Obama, Reid, Pelosi & Many Others for DADT Repeal.	TomP	12:09
4	436	802	5.16	President Obama is right to dismiss 'The Left'	La Feminista	09:21
5	418	332	4.47	Dream Killers:  Hagan, Pryor, Baucus, Nelson and Tester	Denise Oliver Velez	14:39
6	396	179	4.22	We did it! UPDATE: Video!	Senator Kirsten Gillibrand	12:02
7	380	236	3.98	Request for a little help for exmearden’s daughters	Sara R	15:13
8	359	295	3.88	¡Viva WikiLeaks! SiCKO Was Not Banned in Cuba	Michael Moore	06:38
9	348	278	3.76	Republicans set to support 9/11 bill Updated2x	SottoVoce	21:42
10	274	420	3.14	President Barack Obama speaks on the repeal of DADT	Adept2u	18:36

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

2009-12-17 00:00:10 - 2009-12-17 23:55:59
DailyKos posts = 352;  352 per day; 14.7 per hour
Active Kogs: 5100 (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

Kogs who	comment	recommend	write a post	only	all
comment	3423	1832	334	1393	136
recommend	1832	3505	137	1672	136
write	334	137	339	4	136

Posts

posts with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	352	313	130	36	15
commentators	352	352	211	82	21
connections	352	313	266	119	24

Impact statistics from all 352 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.121, average = 0.38, max = 10.40, total =  133.1 bharns
r50 = 12 (at 2.27 bharns)

Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader  or writer) pairs: 17410
Maximum possible such pairs: 5100 x 339 = 1728900
Network Density (observed/possible):  1.007%
Average degree (links/user) = 17410/5100 = 3.414

rank	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	EST
1	963	627	10.40	Radical New Idea: Medicare Buy-In For Everyone	Cenk Uygur	15:43
2	721	708	7.79	Governor Dean speaks for me	Charles Chamberlain	13:02
3	710	561	7.73	Don't fear the truth: LieberCare is an unspeakable hoax	nyceve	12:49
4	612	457	6.54	DSCC threatens Jennifer Brunner in OH-SEN, over money! UPDATE	TimRusso	20:45
5	553	295	5.93	The Real Climate Gate--Bombshell  Leak--Updatedx3	Bill McKibben	16:12
6	516	664	5.73	"Get a Grip"	RenaRF	12:42
7	477	548	5.57	Franken to Lieberman: Shutup.	danktle	16:37
8	355	487	3.96	For the last time: It's not like Auto Insurance! UPDATED	KumarP	00:40
9	325	287	3.50	Major Medical Breakthrough: Cancer Genome Sequenced	Laurence Lewis	19:52
10	314	674	4.05	The Best Argument I've Seen For NOT Killing The HCR Bill	Muzikal203	14:51