High Impact Diaries: May 12, 2011

Welcome to eye secrets reviewer (user_id 310666) who registered at 2011-05-13 04:09:23 EDT, the most recent of 72 in the preceding 24 hours.

Yesterday 204 Kogs posted 233 diaries of which 226 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 2382 recommending readers and viewed by 6873; 137 diaries were recommended by 10 or more readers, 54 by 30 or more, and 16 by 100 or more.  Commenters (2038 ) visited 232 diaries; 116 had 10 or more commenters, 47 had 30 or more, and 6 had 100 or more.

Impact statistics from all 233 diaries. min = 0.01, median = 0.150, average = 0.36, max = 4.60, total =   83.7 bharns r50 = 20 (at 0.89 bharns)

Recommendations and comments were collected Fri May 13 05:00:09 2011 EDT

2011-05-12 00:03:47 - 2011-05-12 23:56:59
DailyKos diaries = 233;  233 per day;  9.7 per hour
Active Kogs: 3213 (writes a diary, recommends a diary, or comments on a diary)
Lurkers: 3699 (only view diaries)

Kogs who	comment	recommend	write a diary	view a diary	CRW only	CRWV only	all
comment	2038	1212	198	2025	721	7	93
recommend	1212	2382	94	2352	1169	25	93
write	198	94	204	202	5	1	93
view	2025	2352	202	6873		3699	93

Diaries

diaries with >	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	233	226	137	54	16
commentators	233	232	116	47	6
connections	233	226	169	78	24
views	233	233	230	201	89

Impact statistics from all 233 diaries.
min = 0.01, median = 0.150, average = 0.36, max = 4.60, total =   83.7 bharns
r50 = 20 (at 0.89 bharns)

Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader  or writer) pairs: 9675
Maximum possible such pairs: 3213 x 204 = 655452
Network Density (observed/possible):  1.476%
Average degree (links/user) = 9675/3213 = 3.011

tags: approved|workspace|cleanup|quickjobs|search|tag user_guidelines
Number of distinct tags: 247168
Number of tag size classes: 1092
Most often used tag: ('Barack Obama',) (71807 diaries)
Singleton tags: 164922 (attached to only one diary)
n50: 545 (number of tags accounting for 50% of tagged diaries)
r50: 693 (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 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 diary.

rank	nrec	ncom	viewers	impact	Diary	Author	EDT
1	437	174	1720	4.60	Laugh, clowns, at your broken loves	Sarahproudandtall	04:50
2	429	131	1637	4.49	Koch Brothers Exposed: Sticker Shock and Street Theater	noise of rain	15:38
3	286	146	1364	3.14	McCain: "Here Are The Facts. Torture Did NOT Lead To Bin Laden"	Verbalpaintball	13:32
4	281	650	1897	3.27	Whites Think They're Losing	psychodrew	09:58
5	250	305	1652	2.74	Fukushima Dai Ichi Unit 1 is officially in a state of Meltdown	Adept2u	19:50
6	237	93	1590	2.54	Jon Stewart RIPS and RAPS into Fox News over the Common freakout	BruinKid	07:30
7	226	230	663	2.38	American poetry at the WH -tempest in a tea party pot	Deoliver47	07:28
8	204	393	1182	2.43	Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden	Michael Moore	11:42
9	179	120	864	1.92	The difference between Wisconsin and Michigan	Eclectablog	08:18
10	172	72	784	1.85	She Is Why the GOP Opposes the DREAM Act	Mother Mags	18:24
11	155	104	823	1.68	The John Ensign Ethics Report	Adam B	15:49
12	153	46	556	1.62	eSci: INTEL's Revolutionary 3D Chip Designed by Radical UC Berkeley Prof	FishOutofWater	22:10
13	123	85	465	1.33	Where Republicans want to take education	teacherken	06:51
14	103	258	357	1.11	Pooties/WPPR: Spring Has Sprung	khloemi	15:00
15	102	48	819	1.11	White House Honored Convicted Felon	Avenging Angel	20:55
16	102	42	382	1.09	NY-26: Pelosi's coming to my house Friday. My brother's fault	Rob Dapore	21:27
17	96	125	478	1.07	I'm Not a Gay, Secular Fascist. But...	FischFry	14:35
18	96	30	184	1.00	Indians 101: The Black Hawk War	Ojibwa	10:42
19	95	149	736	1.06	Butts: A response.	BFSkinner	17:28
20	95	55	650	1.02	Gay Activists Bring Homophobic NY Senator To AIDS Walk—In Drag	Clarknt67	11:37
21	85	92	109	0.89	IGTNT: Honoring a Soldier Who Honored Our Flag	JaxDem	20:18
22	82	16	344	0.86	If We Can Recall SB1070 Author Russell Pearce, WE CAN RECALL ANYBODY!	Stranded Wind	22:08
23	79	50	183	0.85	Thru a Mirror Dimly: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) & Me	Danish Brethren	18:00
24	66	58	402	0.72	How To Best Utilize Facebook	slinkerwink	15:49
25	65	48	250	0.68	Deliberate Impoverishment and Economic Policy	NY brit expat	15:42
26	62	144	421	0.81	Gingrich To Use God In Campaign	LaFeminista	13:04
27	61	47	179	0.65	MA-Sen: Join Me	Setti Warren	13:26
28	58	57	183	0.69	McCain tears into Bush torture apologists	Joan McCarter	21:15
29	55	16	158	0.58	Matriarch of the Everglades	craigkg	11:30
30	54	109	266	0.57	Updated: Donald Trump accepts appointment of Chair Emeritus of the Blacks	princss6	11:14
31	54	65	98	0.57	Community Quilt for Jester, an Afghanistan Veteran	Sara R	19:04
32	48	270	294	0.68	Cheers and Jeers: Thursday	Bill in Portland Maine	08:44
33	47	82	86	0.49	Updated-Overnight News Digest - MB's NFTT Challenge	Oke	00:05
34	45	87	142	0.59	Democrats grill top oil execs, but Sen. Menendez doesn't get his apology	Meteor Blades	15:40
35	43	26	172	0.47	John McCain On Torture	LaFeminista	01:35
36	42	28	161	0.47	Ensign resigned over the Hampton affair. What about Coburn?	blue aardvark	16:12
37	41	108	128	0.44	Chronic Tonic: Fibrowhat?	Chronic Tonic	21:07
38	41	50	281	0.49	Part Two: I canceled my health ins, now what?	one of 8	16:42
39	39	42	96	0.43	Happy Birthday Steve Winwood	Eddie C	17:28
40	37	18	180	0.40	Governor Walker's “Tools” Used by School District in Maple, WI.	geojumper	23:30
41	37	118	147	0.50	Another lesson for Simpson: Raising the retirement age is regressive	Joan McCarter	14:10
42	37	9	84	0.39	Let's supersize a disaster!	RLMiller	11:07
43	36	107	222	0.51	Romneycare vs. Obamacare: guess which one covers abortions	Kaili Joy Gray	16:20
44	35	28	112	0.37	Soupin It Up W/Sped: Back with a Cause	Spedwybabs	19:51
45	35	68	178	0.40	Philosophy and dKos - Concepts and How They Matter	mitumba	13:08
46	35	22	156	0.38	Wisconsin Recount, Day 16: Is Dane County Any Better?	Giles Goat Boy	16:14
47	34	114	177	0.56	Conrad to propose millionaire surtax in budget	Joan McCarter	10:30
48	33	35	55	0.34	NFTT:   "It seems like you just got home"	Proud Mom and Grandma	16:56
49	33	46	160	0.36	Minnesota Votes to Put Bigotry on the Ballot. I Say "Let Them!".	jpmassar	11:30
50	32	120	645	0.55	The Dangers of Coffee, an essay	vyschneider	11:20
51	32	46	135	0.41	Thank Republicans for finally being honest about their plan to destroy Medicare	Chris Bowers	17:00
52	31	11	87	0.32	"Save the library, save Troy"	Neon Vincent	02:46
53	30	75	136	0.42	House GOP rethinks refusal to honor military mission that killed bin Laden	Kaili Joy Gray	11:10
54	30	70	266	0.35	Fukushima: It's amazing what they find every day	nathguy	10:11
55	28	32	100	0.35	Barney Frank: Recess appointment likely for CFPB job	Joan McCarter	22:45
56	27	17	110	0.28	Top Comments: "The Man from UNCLE Affair" - Part 2	Ed Tracey	22:00
57	27	53	105	0.35	Democrats keep up pressure on Big Oil welfare	Joan McCarter	12:40
58	27	34	55	0.28	High Impact Diaries: May 11, 2011	jotter	11:03
59	26	20	118	0.28	Nine Rings Of Hell	Stranded Wind	01:53
60	26	359	390	0.58	Chomsky Goes 9/11 Truther	fizziks	12:52
61	26	60	137	0.38	WSJ greets RomneyCare speech with rebuke: 'Compromised and not credible'	Jed Lewison	11:56
62	26	18	93	0.28	I have cancer - a personal meditation on technology, sustainability and social context	lipowg	19:54
63	25	56	43	0.27	J Town: Got Diary? May 12, 2011	JanF	10:30
64	25	69	114	0.38	Newt Gingrich also supported federally mandated health care coverage	Jed Lewison	13:25
65	25	20	85	0.27	Catholic Profs: Ryan budget is "anti-life"	jem6x	00:11
66	24	9	42	0.25	Daily Reminder--The Food's in the Mail This Saturday	Crashing Vor	09:29
67	23	55	118	0.37	Republicans link Medicare cuts to debt limit vote (but they're bluffing)	Jed Lewison	18:15
68	23	41	101	0.27	Thirty-three years of Newt Gingrich	blue aardvark	14:22
69	23	33	79	0.26	Detainee Security Act 2011: Giving the President Unlimited Power is Terrifying	Badabing	20:12
70	23	15	92	0.26	Indy Public Schools Blocking Charter School Transfers	Mote Dai	20:50
71	23	11	87	0.24	My large bird neighbors	MTmofo	21:01
72	22	44	118	0.24	Oregon Redistricting Proposals Released	James Allen	00:24
73	22	15	123	0.24	To NYT: HIV Treatment Not Impossible, It's Necessary	samdiener	17:41
74	22	9	109	0.23	WI Republicans Decide the State Doesn't Need Safe Drinking Water	FlotsamInaWebSea	16:44
75	21	12	46	0.22	Tonight's Bronx Sunset	Eddie C	23:19
76	20	85	166	0.35	RNC Chairman Reince Priebus no longer waiting for suprise candidate, now 'absolutely' satisfied	Kaili Joy Gray	19:00
77	20	39	71	0.21	Bloomberg Screws Poor — Opposes Living Wage	Mets102	20:38
78	20	11	75	0.22	More Censorship Than China: Internet Blacklist Bill is Back and Even Worse Than Before	DemandProgress	14:11
79	20	8	66	0.22	Education Cuts That Hurt The Most	jeff bryant	21:40
80	19	9	62	0.20	We Can Not Grow Our Economy On The Military Industrial Complex	Stranded Wind	20:44
81	19	129	77	0.24	One Year Later, Another Flotilla to Gaza	soysauce	10:00
82	19	17	48	0.21	Witnessing Revolution #187	JustJennifer	13:44
83	19	13	121	0.23	Okay, Wisconsin:  Time To Be Outraged.  Again.	bangthebuckets	23:12
84	18	73	85	0.30	Open thread for night owls: Time to break up the telecoms?	Meteor Blades	23:30
85	18	27	62	0.20	RKBA: Open Thread	R K B A	11:41
86	18	15	92	0.20	Upon Losing my Religion	Canis Aureus	20:17
87	18	9	45	0.19	Urgent action needed on climate. Lather, rinse, repeat.	RLMiller	20:41
88	18	4	119	0.19	A Picture is Worth 40,000 Jobs	OurPublicSchools	14:30
89	17	19	84	0.21	Wisconsin GOP won't say if they will pass redistricting legislation before recall elections	Chris Bowers	20:30
90	17	7	37	0.18	Help Letter Carriers "Stamp Out Hunger" May 14	James Parks	16:15
91	16	46	169	0.27	Jim Inhofe (R-OK) Refers to Dead OBL as "Obama" on CNN	JekyllnHyde	02:59
92	16	14	52	0.17	Netroots Nation Prequel #2:  The Twin Cities	Baron Dave	13:20
93	16	14	37	0.17	Thursday Classical Music OPUS 38: Mozart Piano Concerto #23	Dumbo	20:25
94	16	10	162	0.18	"Family Values" Republican (and accused murderer) pleads guilty to drug charges	change the Be	16:16
95	16	10	78	0.17	Chinese woman runs for parliament, "was disappeared" with update	xgz	22:00
96	16	9	61	0.17	Eric Cantor Asks You to Vote on Budget Cuts: Tell Him to Cut Congress' Health Care (+ more ideas)	Steven D	10:30
97	15	24	99	0.18	Huckabee's Cartoon History of America	Kysen	18:42
98	15	21	55	0.18	Fok News- Guest Contributor Suggestion Box...	crystal eyes	12:03
99	15	17	82	0.16	Horrifying New Data On Homophobia In Canadian Schools	Dom9000	19:24
100	15	15	221	0.18	7-1 Wisconsin: Ugly but Effective	sapelcovits	02:16
101	15	15	62	0.17	Bubbles, Crashes and How Tulips Outed the Myth of the Free Market	RodgzK	19:48
102	14	36	82	0.25	Romney conveniently 'forgets' he supported a federal health care mandate	Jed Lewison	17:30
103	14	28	88	0.16	On Redistribution, Or, “Afghanistan Peace Dividend Stimulus Lotto? OK!”	fake consultant	04:49
104	14	26	47	0.15	The Rachel Maddow Show - May 12, 2011	CityLightsLover	22:03
105	14	10	148	0.16	Recalculating Presidential Results by Congressional District	David Nir	15:26
106	14	8	62	0.15	Income Inequality Hurts the Rich Too	psyched	02:39
107	14	2	56	0.15	Pulte Got Taxpayer $$ to Create Jobs–But Didn’t	Mike Hall	14:57
108	13	104	160	0.39	Midday open thread	Barbara Morrill	14:55
109	13	85	50	0.16	Write On! Brevity is the soul of.	SensibleShoes	20:00
110	13	60	181	0.18	Atheists vs. Believers: It’s exactly what they want.	RickinStLouis	00:09
111	13	28	175	0.18	i got the strangest letter today...	deli lama	00:05
112	12	56	203	0.22	Again, Bernie plays the Obama we thought we elected	David McKenna	16:43
113	12	56	64	0.18	Daily Kos World of Warcraft Guild Update: Testing again: Wreck List on the PTR	Moody Loner	14:44
114	12	17	210	0.15	Tweety nails the Newt	calef	19:33
115	11	61	164	0.22	DK Elections: VA-Pres: PPP confirms Obama's healthy lead over GOP field	Steve Singiser	10:58
116	10	144	167	0.29	DK Elections Daily Digest: 5/12	David Nir	08:00
117	10	36	284	0.22	Late afternoon/Early evening open thread	Jed Lewison	19:45
118	8	30	83	0.16	AP/GfK poll: Are the numbers too good to be true?	Steve Singiser	22:00
119	7	81	144	0.20	Bin Laden's Sons Call for an "Inquiry"	Pilkington	08:07
120	5	606	761	0.72	I am being stalked on dKos	Aidos	11:54

Impact total:   75.6

  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
  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.
   

Please bring any errors to my attention -- jotter

Bonus Feature: One Year Ago In Daily Kos

2010-05-12 00:00:00 - 2010-05-12 23:59:58
DailyKos diaries = 243;  243 per day; 10.1 per hour
Active Kogs: 4129 (writes a diary, recommends a diary, or comments on a diary)

Kogs who	comment	recommend	write a diary	only	all
comment	2781	1587	222	1077	105
recommend	1587	2929	105	1342	105
write	222	105	228	6	105

Diaries

diaries with >	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	243	206	116	58	18
commentators	243	243	159	67	13
connections	243	206	208	110	22

Impact statistics from all 243 diaries.
min = 0.01, median = 0.161, average = 0.47, max = 7.56, total =  114.3 bharns
r50 = 13 (at 2.96 bharns)

Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader  or writer) pairs: 13780
Maximum possible such pairs: 4129 x 228 = 941412
Network Density (observed/possible):  1.464%
Average degree (links/user) = 13780/4129 = 3.337

rank	nrec	ncom	impact	Diary	Author	EDT
1	706	509	7.56	Dementia: Firsthand -- It sucks.	BFSkinner	09:30
2	526	321	5.64	The Gulf appears to be bleeding - Worse Than BP Admits	Unenergy	02:10
3	507	1478	5.98	The Problem With Elena Kagan Is That She's Not You	Troubadour	13:36
4	425	210	4.55	BP Hearing - What The Traditional Media Did Not Report	Something the Dog Said	09:20
5	413	220	4.37	Rachel links to Fishgrease....Our HERO	Julie Gulden	14:11
6	381	426	4.28	Tell Me Why We Shouldn't Nationalize BP's Well	Crashing Vor	23:59
7	378	201	4.06	Robin Hood vs. The Tea Baggers : Russell Crowe Gets It	KingOneEye	21:05
8	336	140	3.56	BP Terrified... of Morris Bart?	Crashing Vor	00:00
9	333	655	3.71	Facts. Just facts.	blackwaterdog	16:38
10	244	994	3.29	Obama Scraps Iraq Withdrawal	David Swanson	23:49

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

2009-05-11 00:07:18 - 2009-05-11 23:57:44
DailyKos diaries = 222;  222 per day;  9.2 per hour
Active Kogs: 4748 (writes a diary, recommends a diary, or comments on a diary)

Kogs who	comment	recommend	write a diary	only	all
comment	3049	1559	180	1401	91
recommend	1559	3233	92	1673	91
write	180	92	206	25	91

Diaries

diaries with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	222	188	108	40	13
commentators	222	219	165	70	15
connections	222	188	186	114	21

Impact statistics from all 222 diaries.
min = 0.00, median = 0.217, average = 0.50, max = 9.29, total =  110.6 bharns
r50 = 10 (at 2.45 bharns)

Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader  or writer) pairs: 13967
Maximum possible such pairs: 4748 x 206 = 978088
Network Density (observed/possible):  1.428%
Average degree (links/user) = 13967/4748 = 2.942

rank	nrec	ncom	impact	Diary	Author	EDT
1	867	351	9.29	GBCW - Goodbye Cool World	Arjun Jaikumar	17:40
2	702	312	7.61	Coming Soon: Cheney Decimated by Declassification (Update)	Davidsfr	08:51
3	573	491	6.27	I Support The Public Option	Senator Kirsten Gillibrand	15:03
4	568	811	6.62	BREAKING: Daily Kos Bans Good Economic News	bonddad	17:15
5	532	314	5.71	Severe Meta Warning For Daily Kos and Surrounding Counties	Larry Madill	19:30
6	455	341	4.93	What really happened on the Mother's Day WH healthcare conference call	nyceve	09:05
7	383	262	4.09	Let's Make Sure We Have No Option But Factory Farmed Food. Mmm!	Jill Richardson	09:48
8	382	158	4.09	Citibank sent me an infuriating piece of spam They want me to lobby for them against my own interest	Nylawstudent	13:49
9	318	210	3.43	Updated!  Workers Vote For Sit-In at Company Making Obama's Suits.	TomP	13:31
10	247	168	2.69	Breaking: Roxana Saberi Released!!! {UpDated: More Breaking News}	jimstaro	07:20