Week's High Impact Posts: February 9-15, 2013

This week 675 Kogs published 1322 posts of which 1281 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 4657 recommending readers and viewed by 0; 864 posts were recommended by 10 or mor
e readers, 423 by 30 or more, and 121 by 100 or more. Commenters (5344) visited 1322 posts; 761 had 10 or more commenters, 302 had 30 or more, and 48 had 100 or more.

Impact statistics from all 1322 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.207, average = 0.46, max = 7.47, total =  602.6 bharns
r50 = 130 (at 1.04 bharns)
The report also includes tables of readers awarding and authors receiving the most recommendations.

2013-02-09 00:16:12 - 2013-02-15 23:59:07
DailyKos posts = 1322;  188 per day;  7.9 per hour
Active Kogs: 6878 (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)
Lurkers: 0 (only view posts)

Kogs who	comment	recommend	write a post	view a post	CRW only	CRWV only	all
comment	5344	3124	674		1949	1949	403
recommend	3124	4657	403		1533	1533	403
write	674	403	675		1	1	403
view							403

Posts

posts with >	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	1322	1281	864	423	121
commentators	1322	1322	761	302	48
connections	1322	1281	1061	594	183
views	1322

Impact statistics from all 1322 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.207, average = 0.46, max = 7.47, total =  602.6 bharns
r50 = 130 (at 1.04 bharns)

Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader  or writer) pairs: 59609
Maximum possible such pairs: 6878 x 675 = 4642650
Network Density (observed/possible):  1.284%
Average degree (links/user) = 59609/6878 = 8.667

• Up to 100 posts, those with impact > 1.00, 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	date
1	693	360		7.47	Harry Reid: 'What a shame.'	b r o o k l y n b a d b o y	02/13
2	595	470		6.30	May I Make a Gentle Suggestion?	RoCali	02/15
3	500	315		5.50	Dear GOP Whiners-Nobody Forced You To Put Rubio On TV	sfsteach	02/13
4	442	287		4.79	Wanna buy a used car?	Bill in Portland Maine	02/09
5	421	359		4.68	WalMart execs panicking over lousy sales UPDATED	NBBooks	02/15
6	409	194		4.48	Fox News ridicules Desiline Victor, the 102 year old who stood in line to vote	S t e v e n i n g e n	02/14
7	408	562		4.56	Anti-electric car NYT reviewer LIES about Tesla Model S performance. (Update x2)	KenInCO	02/14
8	403	167		4.30	Elizabeth Warren Gets to Work	ask	02/15
9	380	138		4.03	An update on my wife	teacherken	02/15
10	374	202		4.04	BREAKING NEWS: How Numb We've Become	w m t r i a l l a w y e r	02/11
11	374	73		3.92	Hell Hole	Crashing Vor	02/15
12	359	346		3.93	Boomers vs. Millennials	gjohnsit	02/12
13	354	150		3.69	Bricks, or the Damnedest Clues in the Damnedest Places	DrLori	02/15
14	344	572		3.84	What The Hell Is WRONG With Him??	l u n a c h i c k i e	02/11
15	336	104		3.57	There's Something Extraordinary Happening With Drug Offenders in Houston	Grizzard	02/14
16	327	124		3.54	Krugman Takes a Dump on Our Petty Sense of Humor	Reverse The Polarity	02/13
17	322	270		3.53	Coming to a DMV Near You ...	Puddytat	02/12
18	321	67		3.35	Notes from the paddywagon: Keystone is the test	Bill McKibben	02/13
19	318	84		3.33	The Gulf Stream Stalled, Sea Level Rose & the East Coast Flooded in November 2012	Fish Outof Water	02/13
20	312	158		3.40	Bill Maher rips Donald Trump a new one over his lawsuit	BruinKid	02/10
21	311	157		3.35	The Republican Party Hates America.	w e a t h e r d u d e	02/14
22	304	170		3.36	Joe Walsh is a dead beat dad again - and the commenters at TPM are on a roll...	Shuksan Tahoma	02/11
23	291	448		3.19	No, THAT won't work, EITHER!!!!	Bob Johnson	02/09
24	287	101		3.09	Michele Bachmann's bitter, unpaid staffer: 'I witnessed a crime ... they covered up the crime.'	Kaili Joy Gray	02/11
25	285	64		2.99	Killer of Thousands to Face Embezzlement Charges	6412093	02/15
26	276	110		2.96	Koch Planning Tea Party Since 2002, New Research Paper Reveals	KGrandia	02/11
27	272	238		2.87	For commonmass & his family - you did it!	llbear	02/13
28	272	215		2.89	The slow death of the 4th Amendment	gjohnsit	02/10
29	271	127		2.92	U.S. internet access is slow, costly and unfair	Scout Finch	02/12
30	264	197		2.78	Where Things Are At Now: Friday, 3pm, Cathedral Church of St. Luke	commonmass	02/11
31	263	257		2.89	Opus Dei in Charge - For Now	Betty Clermont	02/12
32	262	360		3.00	Chilling: 7 panicky LAPD officers shoot 45+ shots w/o warning wounding 1 shooting up neighborhood	Lefty Coaster	02/09
33	262	103		2.81	Elderly diabetic Latino held in Arpaio's jail 6 months for using fake SSN. He was innocent.	Mother Mags	02/14
34	256	144		2.80	It only makes sense if you are stupid	Ministry Of Truth	02/15
35	251	84		2.68	MN-Sen: Al Franken (D) Wants To Save The Postal Service	p o o p d o g c o m e d y	02/15
36	247	286		2.70	I am Fat [Updated]	Green Mother	02/10
37	244	160		2.68	Dick Cheney on those second-rate people holding power	S t e v e n i n g e n	02/10
38	241	67		2.52	Regarding The Funeral: An Answer To What People Are Asking	commonmass	02/12
39	235	525		2.92	Y'all mock Chris Christie at your peril	kismet	02/09
40	232	143		2.43	Terun Sabre Weed - the Post Funeral Gathering	llbear	02/15
41	231	269		2.68	Oh the water... ohhh ohhh the water	joanneleon	02/12
42	228	198		2.54	GOP fears party split in 2016	blue aardvark	02/14
43	228	127		2.42	My Personal Funeral Hymn as GMBo2's final hymn tomorrow:	commonmass	02/14
44	225	162		2.52	Euthanizing gay dogs for Jesus	Hunter	02/10
45	224	115		2.38	Hi, I'm Anna Galland, the new executive director of MoveOn.org	annamoveon	02/13
46	221	144		2.34	Taibbi: "How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists. And got away with it.?	bobswern	02/14
47	220	141		2.40	Arizona Tea Party wants 'shadow army' to challenge signers of Sheriff Arpaio's recall petition	Mother Mags	02/12
48	220	89		2.38	Birther goes after 102-year-old voter honored in State of the Union speech	gloriasb	02/13
49	220	56		2.33	Neocon Tantrums	Jon Soltz	02/11
50	215	143		2.27	Companion Service for Terun Sabre Weed	Wee Mama	02/15
51	214	84		2.27	Murdochgate: 6 News of the World Journalists ARRESTED for Phone Hacking. BRIT Update x4, plus 6 more	ericlewis0	02/13
52	213	309		2.51	Micro-Hoarding	s h a g g i e s 2 0 0 9	02/10
53	213	141		2.33	Los Angeles archdiocese 'quietly appropriated $115 million' from dead?people	Kaili Joy Gray	02/11
54	209	317		2.35	BREAKING: Meteor airburst over Chelyabinsk	OtherDoug	02/15
55	206	143		2.33	eHarmony co-founder fears violent Christians will kill him	Barbara Morrill	02/15
56	203	191		2.14	Keystone XL pipeline is not in the U.S. National Interest	A Siegel	02/11
57	203	147		2.25	If You Live in the Blizzard Area, Don't Let Your Cat Out!	commonmass	02/10
58	203	123		2.15	BREAKING: WH arrests to come:  Civil Disobedience Action on Keystone XL today	A Siegel	02/13
59	201	113		2.14	So why do hedge funds so favor charter schools?	teacherken	02/15
60	199	88		2.11	The Frog in the Boiling Water is Singing Outside My Window - Climate Change in a Microcosm	Kitsap River	02/11
61	196	653		2.34	LAPD: Dorner is 'domestic terrorist'	b r o o k l y n b a d b o y	02/10
62	193	849		3.39	One space after periods, people	kos	02/12
63	188	88		1.99	Hidden Benefits of Obamacare - Operating Rules!	makome	02/12
64	187	383		2.24	I am overweight, so I can't have that job because I might die?	Anton Bursch	02/09
65	187	269		2.19	Shut your mouth and stop eating: the myth of weight loss in America	DrSocMama	02/10
66	187	65		1.97	Petty, Mean, and Stupid	countwebb	02/12
67	183	239		2.17	Rubio Implosion Lulz	Troubadour	02/13
68	183	103		1.99	e. e. cummings responds to kos	Shuksan Tahoma	02/12
69	182	224		2.10	Tree Climbers:  Pope Benedict XVI - You Are Only As Sick As Your Secrets	Roxine	02/11
70	182	51		1.91	A Climate Crisis	Senator Bernie Sanders	02/15
71	181	62		1.90	Secret Fund Funneled $120 Million to Climate Change Denial Groups	Fish Outof Water	02/15
72	175	67		1.87	Krugman writes on "The Ignorance Caucus"	teacherken	02/11
73	170	73		1.81	OK, I admit it... I CHANGED THE BENGHAZI TALKING POINTS!	JeffLieber	02/15
74	169	67		1.80	Detroit DA finds thousands of untested rape test kits	Christian Dem in NC	02/15
75	164	423		2.10	Should Reid resign if Hagel Nomination is held up?	wilbur	02/14
76	161	188		1.93	Meet Rep. Steve Stockman, the moron who thinks Ted Nugent is a 'patriot'	Hunter	02/11
77	161	34		1.69	Forward on Climate: The Climate Cliff	Congressman Ed Markey	02/13
78	160	324		1.85	Massachusetts mall workers each face $500 fine	C l y t e m n e s t r a	02/09
79	157	80		1.67	Animal Nuz #135	ericlewis0	02/09
80	155	112		1.68	Boomers Die Hard, if Long-Term Unemployed	Bud Meyers	02/14
81	154	133		1.73	The National Rifle Manufacturing Organization of America	kos	02/15
82	154	117		1.69	BREAKING NEWS: Overturning Citizen?s United Not Enough ? We the People Amendment Introduced	Progressive Liberal	02/10
83	149	372		1.98	BREAKING:  Pope Benedict XVI to Resign	gizmo59	02/11
84	149	29		1.55	I lost a dear friend today	E l l i n o r i a n n e	02/13
85	148	76		1.63	Conservative groups oppose Violence Against Women Act because it's not fair to wife-beaters	Kaili Joy Gray	02/11
86	146	287		1.83	Fairfax teen upset by "Beloved" reading assignment, mom cluches pearls while calling for book ban	akeitz	02/09
87	146	161		1.68	Boehner Insults Obama, Says President Does Not Have The "Guts" To Cut Spending.	TomP	02/12
88	145	80		1.52	Will Work For Shelter	laurustina	02/13
89	143	70		1.59	Tea party gun rally fundraiser falls way short. Did backers spend all their money on ammo?	Meteor Blades	02/14
90	141	60		1.50	Warren  (D-MA) to Bank Regulators: Smoochies	Nulwee	02/15
91	140	81		1.55	Cruz and Inhofe resurrect McCarthy to smear Hagel during committee vote	Meteor Blades	02/13
92	139	82		1.53	Freedom From Morbid Obesity	onanyes	02/10
93	138	172		1.72	John McCain's very, very reasonable explanation for why Republicans filibustered Chuck Hagel	Jed Lewison	02/15
94	136	243		1.58	Bombshell article about Petraeus and Benghazi, based on e-book to be released Monday (Updated)	joanneleon	02/10
95	136	111		1.45	The Grieving Room: I could never have imagined a day like this	True Blue Majority	02/11
96	136	97		1.57	For the millionth time, no, Latinos are not socially conservative	kos	02/11
97	131	266		1.47	New Day Aren't 80 years of the 'Redskin' slur enough?	Meteor Blades	02/13
98	131	96		1.45	Kansas Statehouse concerned about "Spirtually Dark" Residents	tmservo433	02/13
99	123	1255		1.84	War is hell: A defense of the Obama Administration's policy regarding drones	Armando	02/10
100	89	413		1.66	The sip of water laughed at world wide	Jed Lewison	02/12

Impact total:  264.0

 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.
   

The analysis of authors includes total impact, number of posts, and the average impact per post.

Author	impact	posts	imp>0.30	fprec	impact/post
Jed Lewison	20.34	33	29	4	0.62
Meteor Blades	17.27	22	20	9	0.79
Hunter	13.92	19	17	1	0.73
Kaili Joy Gray	12.59	13	11	4	0.97
kos	11.98	10	10	5	1.20
teacherken	11.34	11	7	7	1.03
Steveningen	10.25	8	8	5	1.28
brooklynbadboy	10.12	3	3	3	3.37
commonmass	9.97	4	4	4	2.49
Bill in Portland Maine	8.54	6	6	1	1.42
gjohnsit	7.39	4	3	2	1.85
RoCali	6.30	1	1	1	6.30
Joan McCarter	6.14	12	9	1	0.51
Scout Finch	6.08	6	5	5	1.01
joanneleon	5.95	9	2	9	0.66
Mother Mags	5.83	3	3	3	1.94
A Siegel	5.74	4	4	4	1.44
Laura Clawson	5.64	13	8		0.43
poopdogcomedy	5.59	23	2	2	0.24
sfsteach	5.50	1	1	1	5.50
Shuksan Tahoma	5.35	2	2	2	2.67
llbear	5.30	2	2	2	2.65
FishOutofWater	5.24	2	2	2	2.62
Grizzard	5.01	3	2	2	1.67
ericlewis0	4.76	4	3	3	1.19
KenInCO	4.68	2	1	1	2.34
NBBooks	4.68	1	1	1	4.68
Barbara Morrill	4.65	8	4	1	0.58
ask	4.30	1	1	1	4.30
BruinKid	4.20	5	2	1	0.84
Troubadour	4.14	4	3	3	1.03
Puddytat	4.11	2	2	1	2.05
triciawyse	4.10	6	6	5	0.68
wmtriallawyer	4.04	1	1	1	4.04
bobswern	4.01	4	3	3	1.00
Crashing Vor	3.92	1	1	1	3.92
Lefty Coaster	3.90	4	2	3	0.97
shortfinals	3.87	14	5	1	0.28
lunachickie	3.84	1	1	1	3.84
Christian Dem in NC	3.81	9	4	4	0.42
Ojibwa	3.74	9	7	5	0.42
DrLori	3.69	1	1	1	3.69
David Nir	3.67	13	5		0.28
Bob Johnson	3.63	2	2	1	1.81
Roger Fox	3.59	5	4	4	0.72
ReverseThePolarity	3.54	1	1	1	3.54
Horace Boothroyd III	3.51	8	4	4	0.44
ProgressiveLiberal	3.48	10	3	2	0.35
Tom Begnal	3.42	6	6	5	0.57
Roxine	3.38	3	3	2	1.13
Bill McKibben	3.35	1	1	1	3.35
weatherdude	3.35	1	1	1	3.35
blue aardvark	3.19	4	2	1	0.80
6412093	2.99	1	1	1	2.99
KGrandia	2.96	1	1	1	2.96
kismet	2.92	1	1	1	2.92
jpmassar	2.90	6	4	3	0.48
Betty Clermont	2.89	1	1	1	2.89
navajo	2.83	4	3	4	0.71
MinistryOfTruth	2.80	1	1	1	2.80
TomP	2.76	5	3	3	0.55
Greg Dworkin	2.70	5	5		0.54
GreenMother	2.70	1	1	1	2.70
AntonBursch	2.67	2	2	1	1.34
Bud Meyers	2.63	5	2	2	0.53
gloriasb	2.59	2	1	1	1.29
shaggies2009	2.51	1	1	1	2.51
annamoveon	2.38	1	1	1	2.38
gizmo59	2.37	2	2	2	1.19
OtherDoug	2.35	1	1	1	2.35
Floja Roja	2.33	7	6	6	0.33
Jon Soltz	2.33	1	1	1	2.33
Noddy	2.30	11	2	4	0.21
Wee Mama	2.27	1	1	1	2.27
xaxnar	2.23	4	2	2	0.56
tmservo433	2.22	4	3	1	0.55
DrSocMama	2.19	1	1	1	2.19
Kitsap River	2.11	1	1	1	2.11
wilbur	2.10	1	1	1	2.10
laurustina	2.10	2	2	2	1.05
Ray Pensador	2.07	9	2	4	0.23
Armando	2.06	2	1		1.03
makome	1.99	1	1	1	1.99
Roosevelt Institute	1.98	9	1	1	0.22
countwebb	1.97	1	1	1	1.97
Vyan	1.94	3	2	1	0.65
Senator Bernie Sanders	1.91	1	1	1	1.91
Georgia Logothetis	1.90	4	3		0.47
Clytemnestra	1.85	1	1	1	1.85
akeitz	1.83	1	1	1	1.83
JeffLieber	1.81	1	1	1	1.81
Black Kos	1.72	2	2	2	0.86
Mark Sumner	1.72	2	2	1	0.86
richholtzin	1.70	3	2	2	0.57
erratic	1.69	2	1	1	0.85
James Wells	1.69	2	2	2	0.85
Congressman Ed Markey	1.69	1	1	1	1.69
eXtina	1.60	5	2	1	0.32
twigg	1.59	5	2	2	0.32
Ellinorianne	1.55	1	1	1	1.55

Impact total:  424.3
The analysis of readers includes the
number of recommendations awarded, the number of authors recommended,
the number and percent of their recommendations on the most recommended list (conversion)
and a ratio reflecting how much better the recommendations they made matched
the top hit list than would the same number of random picks.

READER	REC	AUTHORS	TopHits	conversion	ratio
a2nite	283	159	44	15.55	2.06
Glen The Plumber	264	156	37	14.02	1.85
One Pissed Off Liberal	219	143	55	25.11	3.32
RiveroftheWest	183	135	33	18.03	2.38
Gooserock	174	142	32	18.39	2.43
blueoasis	173	135	63	36.42	4.81
anodnhajo	166	113	73	43.98	5.81
ericlewis0	164	83	45	27.44	3.63
NancyWH	159	112	35	22.01	2.91
Horace Boothroyd III	158	118	45	28.48	3.77
nomandates	155	101	30	19.35	2.56
tofumagoo	150	106	71	47.33	6.26
arizonablue	146	92	43	29.45	3.89
LinSea	144	91	34	23.61	3.12
OldSoldier99	138	98	43	31.16	4.12
eeff	137	79	36	26.28	3.47
thomask	126	75	40	31.75	4.20
Mentatmark	125	91	44	35.20	4.65
Polly Syllabic	125	84	29	23.20	3.07
Meteor Blades	124	94	28	22.58	2.99
maggiejean	122	90	51	41.80	5.53
Larsstephens	119	83	35	29.41	3.89
wader	119	95	54	45.38	6.00
petral	118	95	21	17.80	2.35
hnichols	118	72	20	16.95	2.24
Lujane	116	94	41	35.34	4.67
Mary Mike	115	85	24	20.87	2.76
marina	115	85	33	28.70	3.79
JeffW	112	76	24	21.43	2.83
Sun Tzu	112	100	42	37.50	4.96
Eyesbright	111	36	19	17.12	2.26
Cassandra Waites	109	81	35	32.11	4.24
annieli	108	52	23	21.30	2.82
Steveningen	108	73	41	37.96	5.02
renzo capetti	106	69	17	16.04	2.12
greenbird	106	74	29	27.36	3.62
weck	105	74	36	34.29	4.53
worldlotus	105	91	35	33.33	4.41
navajo	103	60	22	21.36	2.82
Laurence Lewis	102	81	36	35.29	4.67

      rec   number of posts recommended
   authors = number of authors recommended
   TopHits = number of recommended posts in top hit list
conversion = 100 * TopHits/rec; percent of recommended posts on top hit list
     ratio = TopHits/predicted, where
 predicted = ntop * rec/nposts, where
      ntop = number of posts in top hit list = 100
  nposts = total number of posts  = 1322

Please bring any errors to my attention -- jotter