High Impact Posts: January 14, 2012

Welcome to takbersk (user_id 331143) who registered at 2012-01-15 03:27:53 EST, the most recent of 55 in the preceding 24 hours.

Yesterday 139 Kogs published 153 posts of which 149 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 1873 recommending readers and viewed by 5904; 90 posts were recommended by 10 or more readers, 44 by 30 or more, and 12 by 100 or more. Commenters (1448) visited 153 posts; 84 had 10 or more commenters, 32 had 30 or more, and 1 had 100 or more.

Impact statistics from all 153 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.176, average = 0.40, max = 4.61, total =   60.8 bharns
r50 = 15 (at 0.98 bharns)

Recommendations and comments were collected Sun Jan 15 05:00:05 2012 EST.

2012-01-14 00:00:03 - 2012-01-14 23:17:47
DailyKos posts = 153;  153 per day;  6.4 per hour
Active Kogs: 2444 (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)
Lurkers: 3478 (only view posts)

Kogs who	comment	recommend	write a post	view a post	CRW only	CRWV only	all
comment	1448	881	134	1442	498	5	65
recommend	881	1873	66	1860	991	12	65
write	134	66	139	139	4		65
view	1442	1860	139	5904		3478	65

Posts

posts with >	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	153	149	90	44	12
commentators	153	153	84	32	1
connections	153	149	114	61	17
views	153	153	152	142	73

Impact statistics from all 153 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.176, average = 0.40, max = 4.61, total =   60.8 bharns
r50 = 15 (at 0.98 bharns)

Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader  or writer) pairs: 6867
Maximum possible such pairs: 2444 x 139 = 339716
Network Density (observed/possible):  2.021%
Average degree (links/user) = 6867/2444 = 2.810

tags: approved|workspace|cleanup|quickjobs|search|tag user_guidelines
Number of distinct tags: 272459
Number of tag size classes: 1153
Most often used tag: ('Barack Obama',) (73795 posts)
Singleton tags: 182177 (attached to only one post)
n50: 573 (number of tags accounting for 50% of tagged posts)
r50: 748 (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	427	304	2540	4.61	I knew I had to leave America when I was no longer able to go to the county fair.	Democrats Ramshield	06:59
2	304	161	1115	3.24	15 Things Old Boys like Rick Santorum Don't Want You to Know About Your Contraception	Valerie Tarico	17:27
3	297	202	2078	3.19	Rahm Caught Red Handed By State Officials	Hyde Park Johnny	10:25
4	272	77	1144	2.85	No Surprise. Oakland Police Chief Lied to Discredit Occupy Oakland.	jpmassar	11:42
5	251	94	766	2.63	Musings of a housekeeper in Belgium (update)	averblue	08:59
6	197	132	1044	2.14	William "Full Of Piss" Kristol	La Feminista	04:21
7	165	52	596	1.73	Welcome Bill Moyers Back into Our Homes	jimstaro	12:43
8	123	45	728	1.31	Wise words from Elizabeth Warren	teacherken	07:00
9	122	156	1302	1.35	BREAKING -  good news from Obama administration	teacherken	09:46
10	102	117	335	1.10	Understanding Biological Evolution	Tim DeLaney	13:00
11	102	72	297	1.18	Kudos to ABC's Jake Tapper for being a 'Truth Vigilante'	Hunter	11:15
12	101	69	469	1.09	Occupy Congress:Bump in the Road Occupiers Kicked off Greyhound in Texas	Horace Boothroyd III	21:58
13	95	50	234	1.00	Animal Nuz #79	ericlewis0	13:24
14	88	219	326	0.98	Happee Caturdai Diaree	triciawyse	14:15
15	88	100	665	1.01	Religious right poised to demonstrate their electoral irrelevance	Scott Wooledge	18:33
16	80	294	471	0.98	WYFP? Alcohol	Lightbulb	20:00
17	77	123	280	0.83	State Parks of the San Juan Islands: Jewels in the Salish Sea	RonK	12:25
18	75	188	348	0.84	For football-loving Obamabots only	Dragon5616	12:01
19	69	77	284	0.76	Pootie Pad Party: Choosing a Logo	Sara R	17:50
20	67	45	272	0.71	How I Became a Poor, Wha Kid. Memories & Metaphors.	dear occupant	13:11
21	66	21	359	0.70	a personal quick note:  i've not dropped off the grid	edrie	16:14
22	64	65	373	0.73	King Newt would fire the liberal Federal workers	Scott Wooledge	22:17
23	62	295	144	0.67	Saturday Morning Garden Blogging, Vol. 7.47: The Unpredictability of Winter Weather	Ozark Homesteader	09:00
24	61	34	278	0.67	Obama Administration Rejects SOPA/PIPA DNS Blocking	ukit	23:10
25	57	31	136	0.60	Prevention of Voter Fraud or Insurance of Voter Suppression?	Progressive Patriot P A	13:05
26	56	132	331	0.69	Backyard Science - Deep Dark Woods, Why I Don't Believe in Bigfoot	f o r e s t e r b o b	11:05
27	53	82	170	0.58	Language	S t e v e n i n g e n	00:13
28	53	367	999	0.81	Saturday hate mail-a-palooza: Ron Paul storms the beach	kos	13:30
29	52	102	324	0.63	Evangelicals chose Santorum at their confab	blue aardvark	15:45
30	52	79	257	0.57	Global Warming - Creating the Conditions for a Cronkite Moment - Part 2: This is solvable	James Wells	11:25
31	51	32	385	0.56	Too Cute by Half: Newt Says, "Pull the Bain Movie!"	Crashing Vor	06:11
32	48	39	212	0.54	Responses to proposed GSUSA cookie boycott	rserven	10:06
33	48	15	203	0.51	Young Homeless Woman Wins Prestigious Science Award:  Gets a Home.	NNadir	12:59
34	45	46	361	0.50	Sarkozy Is Fnckuig Toast	La Feminista	15:41
35	43	19	223	0.46	Reaganomics Architect Sued for Ponzi Scheme	Activist Guy	22:29
36	42	43	237	0.48	FREEDOM'S JUST ANOTHER WORD: Wisconsin public teacher in trouble for uttering opinion outside class	rlegro	11:30
37	36	73	124	0.42	What's for Dinner? v6.24: Clementines	Cordelia Lear	19:30
38	36	38	117	0.42	This week in the War on Women: 2011 was a hell of a year. Will 2012 be better?	Kaili Joy Gray	19:00
39	35	47	135	0.40	We're going to write a novel: Part 3	Mark Sumner	18:15
40	35	16	148	0.38	How President Obama PERSONALLY Improved My Quality of Life	Rolandz	12:15
41	33	330	54	0.37	J Town: Got Post? January 14, 2012	JanF	10:30
42	33	39	122	0.35	Top Comments - On the Ground in SC	BeninSC	22:00
43	33	26	317	0.37	Better Democrats? ???? It, I'm Emigrating!	b u b b a n o m i c s	13:32
44	31	12	168	0.33	(update) Sacred Heart Hospital In PA Dumps Patient In Cold Street	janemas	10:35
45	29	22	127	0.31	AL-06: Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit. I can vote again!	quaoar	11:34
46	27	8	132	0.28	The Hypocrisy Of Jeff Fitgerald, Wisconsin Republicans	ericbau114	11:50
47	26	59	112	0.36	This week in science: Of maxima and minima	DarkSyde	09:00
48	26	49	229	0.30	Muslim grad student reports sexual harassment, gets reported as a terrorist	tytalus	13:00
49	25	67	161	0.39	No Labels takes out full page ad demanding bipartisan seating arrangements. So bold.	Hunter	20:00
50	24	76	73	0.27	Saturday Morning Home Repair 6.23	claude	09:02
51	24	7	102	0.26	Austerity And The Credit Rating Agencies	La Feminista	00:45
52	24	36	275	0.28	Captain Kirk Brings It!	joemac53	15:11
53	24	12	97	0.27	This week in the War on Workers: Why are these teachers working without pay?	Laura Clawson	18:55
54	23	67	115	0.27	Weekend: Acoustic Guitarists	EdMass	17:23
55	23	11	98	0.25	Dear Mr. Brisbane	Dustbowl Observer	10:14
56	22	91	38	0.23	What's Happenin'? 01.14.12	psychodrew	10:00
57	22	20	87	0.25	Catholic Bishops of Washington Urge Faithful to Oppose Gay Marriage	Kendall Light	23:17
58	22	38	93	0.27	This week in the War on Voting: New Hampshire target of right-wing voter fraud conspiracy	Joan McCarter	16:00
59	22	18	135	0.25	Jesus Picks the Frothy Mixture Over the Flip Flopping Mormon, According to Family Research Council	Bill Schmalfeldt	16:05
60	22	15	42	0.24	High Impact Posts: January 13, 2012	jotter	11:25
61	20	28	101	0.22	The Government is Monitoring Social Media & Peter Van Buren	Jesselyn Radack	09:15
62	20	17	84	0.22	2012: The year of social unrest?	gjohnsit	11:06
63	19	19	37	0.20	ArtKos: Saturday Painting Palooza Vol. 335	boran2	09:00
64	19	10	80	0.21	Only FL charter schools got money for maintenance 2011.  Some public schools had to give back money	floridagal	12:55
65	19	21	106	0.22	New on Facebook! Political Sentiment Data Mining	Horace Boothroyd III	12:15
66	18	249	187	0.31	NFL Divisional Playoffs game 2 liveblog	kbman	20:28
67	18	197	27	0.19	GUS: Saturday morning yoga	e f f e r v e s c e n t	07:00
68	18	66	125	0.30	Obama discusses insourcing, merging federal business agencies in weekly address	Susan Gardner	10:30
69	18	61	457	0.29	Daily Kos Elections Weekend Digest: GOP exodus from California, and there's a presidential race too!	Steve Singiser	17:00
70	17	18	48	0.19	Looking Back at Apollo: Filled with Longing for a Great Human Adventure	Troubadour	06:12
71	17	11	258	0.19	Huffington Post's Kathryn Marshall meltdown on Power & Politics goes viral	Jymn	07:06
72	17	70	166	0.26	I am NOT a Christian. But I believe in Tim Tebow	Dave in AZ	14:53
73	17	55	136	0.27	Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Is Stephen Colbert any less serious than the other clowns running?	DemFromCT	07:43
74	17	22	127	0.20	SEAMUS FOR OBAMA	NellaSelim	14:01
75	16	35	76	0.18	Saturday Stamp Nook	Cartoon Peril	12:23
76	15	24	137	0.18	Occupy San Francisco:Livestream Occupiers on Bank Roof Police Responding	Horace Boothroyd III	16:04
77	15	14	53	0.17	Books So Bad They're Good:  A New You For the New Year!	Ellid	21:00
78	15	13	48	0.16	When Kids and Guns mix and when they don't	ban nock	08:54
79	15	3	133	0.16	Trying to Keep My Feet Under Me and Stay Off My Ass	l e f t y p a r e n t	17:34
80	14	14	114	0.16	CNN's 'Bad Memories, Bitterness Over Romney Past' Includes Georgetown, S.C.	Jamie Sanderson	02:06
81	14	10	85	0.16	A Letter to a Friend Dismissing Paul	exatc	11:40
82	12	67	523	0.24	Yesterday I learned why this place s*x	enhydra lutris	17:53
83	9	232	121	0.17	NFL Divisional Playoffs liveblog	kbman	16:21
84	5	88	101	0.25	Midday open thread	Dante Atkins	15:00
85	5	57	231	0.15	Alleged Anonymous video goes birther and calls for Obama to resign over NDAA	Tool	14:55

Impact total:   56.0

 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

2011-01-14 00:06:06 - 2011-01-14 23:58:49
DailyKos posts = 172;  172 per day;  7.2 per hour
Active Kogs: 3674 (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

Kogs who	comment	recommend	write a post	only	all
comment	2587	1441	150	1065	69
recommend	1441	2522	71	1079	69
write	150	71	158	6	69

Posts

posts with >	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	172	139	92	40	14
commentators	172	172	130	55	9
connections	172	139	147	87	19

Impact statistics from all 172 posts.
min = 0.02, median = 0.207, average = 0.52, max = 7.22, total =   89.7 bharns
r50 = 9 (at 2.50 bharns)

Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader  or writer) pairs: 11156
Maximum possible such pairs: 3674 x 158 = 580492
Network Density (observed/possible):  1.922%
Average degree (links/user) = 11156/3674 = 3.036

rank	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	EST
1	681	295	7.22	Requiem	Al Rodgers	15:34
2	608	575	6.64	[updated] Anti-choice pharmacist refuses to fill rx to stop bleeding	bay of arizona	09:25
3	542	1780	6.92	Daily Kos 3.999 Roll Call!	Seneca Doane	12:37
4	498	247	5.27	Have Democratic leaders ostracized Jan Schakowsky?	Eddie C	23:31
5	462	473	5.12	From "Blood Libel" to "Pogrom" [Updated]	DanK Is Back	19:01
6	309	136	3.28	A Time to Build Bridges	Raul Grijalva	12:06
7	291	170	3.16	Jon Stewart blasts right-wing critics of Tucson memorial service	BruinKid	10:03
8	264	152	2.84	Glacier National Park (Photos)	Ojibwa	11:02
9	246	116	2.66	Impact of Tucson Speech felt around the World	Vyan	20:30
10	229	202	2.50	Inappropriate Behavior Is In The Eye of The Beholder	irishwitch	19:40

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

2010-01-13 00:02:41 - 2010-01-13 23:55:08
DailyKos posts = 255;  255 per day; 10.6 per hour
Active Kogs: 4597 (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

Kogs who	comment	recommend	write a post	only	all
comment	3077	1676	238	1269	106
recommend	1676	3194	107	1517	106
write	238	107	241	2	106

Posts

posts with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	255	221	130	47	20
commentators	255	255	182	83	20
connections	255	221	225	121	28

Impact statistics from all 255 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.190, average = 0.50, max = 7.24, total =  127.5 bharns
r50 = 13 (at 2.40 bharns)

Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader  or writer) pairs: 15801
Maximum possible such pairs: 4597 x 241 = 1107877
Network Density (observed/possible):  1.426%
Average degree (links/user) = 15801/4597 = 3.437

rank	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	EST
1	690	177	7.24	UPDATED: I Know, It Is Short For a Diary, But....	RoCali	22:30
2	595	666	6.53	President Obama is my hero today (Updated)	beachmom	17:39
3	557	378	6.13	Raymond Joseph Delivers A Message To Pat Robertson (And Everyone Else)	s l u g g a h j e l l s	23:44
4	524	433	5.54	Six Shelter Boxs bought!+ 56.39 towards next	TexMex	12:27
5	514	345	5.63	At Least Someone Has Some Decency	Vita Brevis	16:51
6	467	333	5.02	Simply put...  Wow!!  Go DeFazio!	Mike Stark	13:49
7	459	537	5.31	Reid:  Lieberman double-crossed me	Paleo	15:29
8	453	227	4.84	J'ACCUSE!	teacherken	06:38
9	432	423	4.68	Russia's CH4 Bomb	Fish Outof Water	23:20
10	386	193	4.07	Helping the Victims of the Haiti Earthquake Day 2	cosmic debris	21:49