High Impact Diaries - July 22, 2005

Yesterday 215 Kosmopolitan authors posted 243 diaries, of which 5 were later withdrawn, 209 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 1498 recommending readers, 42 diaries were recommended by 10 or more readers, 16 by 30 or more.

The first 100 or fewer diaries with impact > 0.085 are shown below, sorted by number of recommendations.

Recommendations and comments were collected at 6:20 AM July 23; diaries posted less than 24 hours before that remained open for recommendation at that time. The last registered uid was 59534 to mrspl2005.

Fri Jul 22 00:00:00 2005 - Fri Jul 22 23:59:59 2005
DailyKos diaries = 243; 243 per day; 10.1 per hour
Active Kosmopolitans: 1628
Exclusive Authors: 130; Author/Readers: 85; Total Authors: 215
Exclusive Readers: 1413; Author/Readers: 85; Total Readers: 1498
Corecommendation graph: nodes: 23, Edges: 52, tightest pair: 6/11 & 6/10.

Diaries: posted 243, withdrawn: 5, remaining: 238, recommended {1: 209, 10: 42, 30: 16}.

rank	nrec	ncom	impact	Diary	Author	time
1	265	185	2.372	Niger Yellowcake and The Man Who Forged Too Much	Pen	04:56 PDT
2	236	190	2.119	Gay Teens Executed in Iran: Disturbing Pictures	DCDemocrat	07:22 PDT
3	218	289	1.996	Cheney to Generals: Prepare to Attack Iran	Steven D	13:48 PDT
4	205	90	1.825	Iowa GOP official steals journalist's name for Moonies, tries to cover it up	johngoren	10:00 PDT
5	201	173	1.808	Science Friday: Ancestral Magnitudes	DarkSyde	02:09 PDT
6	163	66	1.450	My DSM Rovegate Chronology Released Today	Congressman John Conyers	19:08 PDT
7	127	28	1.128	A-List Chris Bowers	Bob Brigham	17:21 PDT
8	97	73	0.870	GOP candidate - vote for me and I will pursue Bush impeachment	RichardG	18:08 PDT
9	92	54	0.821	Larry Johnson testimony: Senate Committee	SusanHu	07:57 PDT
10	92	54	0.821	Congressional Rove Hearing Today	Rep Louise Slaughter	07:05 PDT
11	87	119	0.798	No he didn't!	pastordan	12:33 PDT
12	86	55	0.769	Where are the Abu Ghraib Photos?	Gator	11:59 PDT
13	66	63	0.595	Iraq's Dead, Jim.	Delaware Dem	07:00 PDT
14	63	45	0.564	Larry Johnson To Give Sat. Democratic Radio Address	SusanHu	15:31 PDT
15	56	297	0.711	LIVE THREAD - Public Disclosure of Covert Agents	Terre	07:11 PDT
16	53	23	0.472	Artist Renderings of Abuse of 8 Year Old Girl at Abu Ghraib	Neverknowsbest	22:58 PDT
17	28	20	0.251	64% of Americans disapprove of Bush and other great poll numbers	liza	00:38 PDT
18	26	24	0.234	"We Can't Afford It"	bonddad	15:22 PDT
19	25	31	0.228	Why Bolton would have testified to the Plame grand jury	emptywheel	13:34 PDT
20	22	14	0.197	GOOD Interview on FOX n Friends [Edited]	PoliMorf	06:36 PDT
21	22	14	0.197	OH-2: Showdown on Mainstreet (Live-Blog)	ttagaris	18:04 PDT
22	21	48	0.204	Breaking from Raw Story: Fitz Thinking "Perjury"	Hell Upside Down	19:28 PDT
23	20	32	0.186	What's Eating Damnit Janet?	Damnit Janet	11:30 PDT
24	18	35	0.171	Many Large Explosions Reported in Egypt	ECH	16:11 PDT
25	18	7	0.160	WaPo: No phone records of Cooper call, Rove kept quiet	Swopa	20:37 PDT
26	17	44	0.169	Oregon House passes pseudoephedrine (Sudafed) prescription bill	RadicalRuss	08:22 PDT
27	16	19	0.146	My Love Affair with Keith Olbermann	RenaRF	14:54 PDT
28	15	51	0.159	Why Clark is Far and Away the Best Nominee	Norwell	13:14 PDT
29	15	15	0.136	"I expect better behavior out of Republicans"	QWQ	14:42 PDT
30	15	4	0.133	Keith Olberman uses the L-word	sara seattle	19:40 PDT
31	14	23	0.130	FEC: News, News, News	acbonin	09:45 PDT
32	13	17	0.119	Karen Hughes in the spotlight (LIVE THREAD)	Christian Dem in NC	07:53 PDT
33	13	1	0.115	Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 213	RubDMC	08:40 PDT
34	12	17	0.110	No Democrats at Karen Hughes Confirmation Hearing	mkt	14:14 PDT
35	12	2	0.107	GRANDMOTHERS ENLIST FOR IRAQ	judybrowni	16:15 PDT
36	11	28	0.109	DNC raises record $86.3 mil from Jan to June	daveweigel	06:48 PDT
37	11	10	0.099	Rove, Libby may face perjury, obstruction charges!!!!!	EZ writer	19:47 PDT
38	11	9	0.099	A book you MUST READ- and ACT on!	Lainie	03:13 PDT
39	10	20	0.095	There's Enough to Indict Rove and Libby TODAY	pontificator	08:06 PDT
40	10	12	0.091	All out of Outrage, tapping Strategic Reserves (pep talk)	jabbausaf	20:51 PDT
41	10	8	0.090	Kerry: American People Must Know Roberts' Record on Civil Rights	kerrygoddess	17:27 PDT
42	10	6	0.089	Six Degrees of Separation to Bring Down Bush	Yosef 52	14:01 PDT
43	9	60	0.130	Man shot by armed police on Tube	Dreaded Lysergic	03:23 PDT
44	9	23	0.089	Bush is not doing as badly as we think	Ptolemy	05:08 PDT
45	9	22	0.088	Moderate McCain on Hardball: Transcript Now Up	cscs	13:07 PDT
46	9	21	0.088	Kerry Seeks Release of Roberts' Documents	jennifer poole	17:16 PDT
47	9	20	0.087	Abu Ghraib: The MSM stirs.	Gator	19:12 PDT
48	8	82	0.157	Man shot by London police not bomber, no explosives	non cest non	14:09 PDT
49	8	32	0.090	Joe Lieberman has a challenger for Senate in 2006	whitehousemoron	20:45 PDT
50	7	82	0.154	The Attacks on NARAL	Alegre	10:07 PDT
51	6	53	0.105	US already in full-scale assault on Iran!	Paul in Berkeley	17:59 PDT
52	6	52	0.104	PA-Sen: Casey leads Santorum by 11%	jj32	08:28 PDT
53	6	48	0.098	Search Me, No Thanks, I'll Be Biking NYC	NewDirection	09:14 PDT
54	5	126	0.220	Dean forgets who he represents	schweiz8	16:43 PDT
55	5	67	0.123	12-year-old fry girl should testify about Roberts	David Boyle	14:41 PDT
56	4	62	0.112	London shooting: The New Amadou Diallo?	tgnyc	12:59 PDT
57	2	132	0.227	Baby Name Help	rweinst01	07:59 PDT
58	2	57	0.099	Photo: Bush Caught Drinking?	mrboma	21:32 PDT
59	1	87	0.149	I Like Mike -- NYC mayoral update (w. Poll)	LarryInNYC	09:24 PDT

Impact total: 25.062

NB: Rankings and numbers of diaries are based on a best effort to comprehensively collect and count all user diaries posted to dailykos.com, including those later withdrawn. Titles shown will not reflect changes made later. For a discussion of how this list was generated see the diary How to make a list of recommended diaries.

Please bring any errors to my attention -- jotter