High Impact Posts: July 24, 2014

Yesterday 145 Kogs posted 181 posts of which 175 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 1743 recommending readers; 116 posts were recommended by 10 or more readers, 50 by 30 or more, and 16 by 100 or more. Commenters (1809) visited 181 posts; 97 had 10 or more commenters, 42 had 30 or more, and 6 had 100 or more.

Impact statistics from all 181 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.179, average = 0.39, max = 3.08, total =   70.5 bharns
r50 = 21 (at 0.92 bharns)

Recommendations and comments were collected Fri Jul 25 05:00:02 2014 EDT.

2014-07-24 00:05:13 - 2014-07-24 23:53:02
DailyKos posts = 181;  181 per day;  7.5 per hour
Active Kogs: 2679 (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

Kogs who	comment	recommend	write a post	only	all
comment	1809	875	143	856	65
recommend	875	1743	65	868	65
write	143	65	145	2	65

Posts

posts with >	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	181	175	116	50	16
commenters	181	181	97	42	6
connections	181	175	135	76	24

Impact statistics from all 181 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.179, average = 0.39, max = 3.08, total =   70.5 bharns
r50 = 21 (at 0.92 bharns)

Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader  or writer) pairs: 8204
Maximum possible such pairs: 2679 x 145 = 388455
Network Density (observed/possible):  2.112%
Average degree (links/user) = 8204/2679 = 3.062

• 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.
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• For a more complete description of the lists and statistics see this post.

rank	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	EDT
1	280	242	3.08	Shocking drought data from NASA	Jen Hayden	16:16
2	259	543	2.88	After UN Declares Israel Possibly Committing War Crimes, Israel Fires on UN School Housing Refugees	Liepar Destin	10:27
3	221	518	2.62	UPDATED x 4: ISIS Orders Female Genital Mutilation of All Women in Mosul	Timaeus	09:23
4	192	80	2.08	SHOCK:  SurveyUSA Puts Paul Davis (D) Ahead of Sam Brownback by 8	tmservo433	19:06
5	175	234	2.00	It is time to End the military aid to Israel	w i n d w a r d g u y 4 6	16:48
6	175	76	1.91	Montana judge officially reprimanded for disgusting comments about teen rape victim	Jen Hayden	15:18
7	167	30	1.76	NO Hyperbole: Obamacare saved my friend's life	rickeagle	15:17
8	155	120	1.73	Glenn Beck claims he can't be sued for defamation because his victim became a 'public figure'	Hunter	13:44
9	152	59	1.62	Another Nugent Cancellation!	Delta Overdue	18:48
10	144	205	1.53	I'm glad I didn't miss it:  Transcript of The Rev. Dr. William Barber at NN14	True Blue Majority	14:00
11	135	58	1.45	One Man's Attempt To F*** Up The Planet	La Feminista	12:43
12	128	34	1.35	A Villager explains why he's moving left	devtob	23:00
13	126	492	1.96	Dear DNC, say no to Phoenix	kos	10:56
14	118	149	1.42	How To Cancel Your Comcast Service or Service with Anyone	j o e d e m o c r a t	20:13
15	113	53	1.22	GOPers just cant haz no "Compassion"	Vyan	11:34
16	101	29	1.07	Oil Train derails in Seattle underneath major arterial - Rally Tonight in S. Seattle	Lefty Coaster	16:24
17	94	59	1.03	The History of Mass Incarceration in the US...in One Chart	Liberty Equality Fraternity and Trees	11:34
18	93	172	1.08	Editorial Position of the New York Times: Thumbs Up for Gaza Slaughter	Norman Solomon	02:57
19	89	89	0.99	Forced-birthers joyful that only six abortion clinics may remain open in Texas after September 1	Meteor Blades	14:12
20	86	114	0.99	No immigration crisis, just a refugee one	kos	10:30
21	84	86	0.92	Moon-like suit is supposed to keep Ebola virus out so why do health care workers keep catching it?	HoundDog	18:56
22	81	48	0.88	The Diary Of An American Hater & A Missing 16-Year Old Girl In Tennessee	Leslie Salzillo	19:24
23	76	161	0.83	Fursdai Furries	triciawyse	13:57
24	73	48	0.80	House Republicans blow up VA funding talks by blowing off Democratic compromise offer	Laura Clawson	11:12
25	72	228	1.19	John McCain very sad that President Obama has no desire to 'have social interface' with him	Jed Lewison	12:00
26	71	18	0.75	We did it! Another NW venue cancels 2 Ted Nugent concerts!	Lefty Coaster	21:13
27	62	77	0.73	Google Earth Caught me walking..	roseeriter	07:10
28	62	112	0.80	Paul Ryan unveils plan to do his Paul Ryan thing to poverty programs	Laura Clawson	10:44
29	59	114	0.72	Cheers and Jeers: Thursday	Bill in Portland Maine	08:18
30	57	175	0.74	I/P Posting: How not to get kicked out in your first comment	s e r e n d i p i t y i s a b i t c h	20:20
31	57	117	0.71	Arizona execution lasts two hours; attorney calls for external inquiry	Hunter	16:26
32	55	129	0.70	Cartoon: The Gaza grip	Matt Wuerker	17:50
33	55	84	0.70	Conservatives think they've figured out how to talk about banning abortion	Jed Lewison	15:45
34	51	103	0.63	Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: On Halbig, Georgia Senate race and more	Greg Dworkin	07:30
35	49	217	0.52	Connect! Unite! Act! Asheville, Florida & D.C. Meet-up Info! — Are you a clicktivist or activist?	paradise50	10:30
36	47	50	0.57	Affordable Care Act helped 10 million Americans get insurance	Hunter	12:59
37	46	77	0.49	Top Comments:  Can You Stand One More NN14 Diary?	gizmo59	22:02
38	45	54	0.48	Via Democracy Now!  UN Count Says 1 Child Killed Each Hour In Gaza; School Shelled For 2nd Time	Celtic Merlin	23:17
39	45	39	0.47	DK VA Hospital Support Project: Detroit	Sara R	19:49
40	45	18	0.49	Can you hear us now? President Obama greeted by net neutrality activists at fundraisers	Rachel Colyer	21:30
41	42	100	0.51	Gaza: There will be a ceasefire soon.	InAntalya	17:42
42	42	34	0.47	Israel Bans Radio Advert That Lists Dead Palestinian Children	Retroactive Genius	07:25
43	40	54	0.42	Kitchen Table Kibitzing  7/24/14: A Spiritual Challenge	r e m e m b r a n c e	20:00
44	38	40	0.47	Jon Stewart looks at contradictory Obamacare rulings	BruinKid	08:30
45	35	7	0.37	NYT article on homeless attack is perfect example of how homeless are dehumanized	Horace Boothroyd III	09:09
46	35	49	0.43	Open thread for night owls. Donovan: Scions of inherited wealth are endangering our democracy	Meteor Blades	23:00
47	32	35	0.40	House Democrats to hammer GOP on Boehner lawsuit during August recess	Jed Lewison	17:15
48	31	7	0.33	ACA Signups: Game Back On! 9M total QHPs by mid-August?	Brainwrap	08:17
49	31	67	0.48	House moves towards vote on Boehner's pre-impeachment lawsuit	Jed Lewison	13:30
50	31	22	0.35	GA-Sen Republican Primary Runoff: An Analysis	Le Champignon	10:37
51	29	12	0.31	Wind power to double by 2018 and will soon generate 7% of our world's electricity!	HoundDog	22:25
52	28	39	0.31	Fukushima's Biggest Mess: MOX Reactor #3	Joieau	13:35
53	27	28	0.29	Daily Bucket: My Former Backyard	Lenny Flank	08:15
54	27	15	0.30	Nick Kristof offers An Idiot’s Guide to Inequality	teacherken	00:07
55	25	78	0.27	The Evening Blues - 7-24-14	joe shikspack	20:00
56	25	28	0.28	In Roger Goodell's NFL, Smoking Pot Worse Than Domestic Violence	Cali Scribe	14:41
57	25	72	0.35	German politicians question whether Russia should be allowed to host 2018 World Cup	Jen Hayden	14:49
58	25	12	0.26	More and Better Protest Signs	f r e e w a y b l o g g e r	10:09
59	24	5	0.25	HHS Reports That The ACA Has Saved Consumers $9 Billion	Gary Norton	17:28
60	24	18	0.28	Jar Jar Binks now more popular than Congress	Faith Gardner	13:54
61	23	99	0.26	Write On! "You're likable enough, character."	Sensible Shoes	20:00
62	23	94	0.33	Why do college educated people support the Tea Party?	Older and Wiser Now	17:05
63	23	25	0.28	Rush Limbaugh Hates Hiroshima and Nagasaki Memorials	tkirkland	01:49
64	23	16	0.26	The Right-Wing Media Echo Chamber and the "Science" of Speaking in Tongues	c h a u n c e y d e v e g a	17:41
65	23	8	0.25	Judgement against Poland, for CIA black-site torture	Garrett	15:35
66	22	37	0.26	JB Van Hollen: The Fourteenth Amendment Doesn't Apply To Gay People	l e f t p r o g r e s s i v e	16:41
67	22	22	0.24	Drum Corps, Clinic Defense, Big Vinny	MillieNeon	14:32
68	22	14	0.24	Unemployment Claims Plummet to Lowest Level Since Early 2006	ericlewis0	10:07
69	21	10	0.23	Cartoon: Super-Fun-Pak Comix, feat. Vampire Hunter, Zombie Slayer & more!	Ruben Bolling	09:50
70	20	20	0.22	Rescue Me - Noah's Arks Rescue Okatie, SC (Warning Some Images Are Difficult)	Pam LaPier	13:39
71	20	3	0.21	Canadian Water Convoy Coming to Detroit	Fuzzytek	00:49
72	19	85	0.35	Elizabeth Warren Might Run For President, and That's a Good Thing	YeaYouRite	13:40
73	19	71	0.26	Ukrainian Political Coalition Collapses	Richard Lyon	13:10
74	19	43	0.26	Midday open thread: Initial jobless claims hit eight-year low, botched execution #4 takes two hours	Meteor Blades	15:00
75	19	25	0.21	William Z Foster and the Communist Party USA	Lenny Flank	16:30
76	18	40	0.28	Michele Bachmann Suggests Labor Camps for Immigrant Children	HarpboyAK	22:55
77	18	28	0.24	Senator Marco Rubio: Supporters Of Marriage Equality Are Intolerant Hypocrites	l i b r a r i s i n g n s f	00:36
78	17	55	0.19	IAN: Thursday 7/24/2014:Going to the theater	art ah zen	00:45
79	17	3	0.18	Hellraisers Journal: Elbert Hubbard vs. Charles Edward Russell on Business "Publicity by Default"	JayRaye	14:00
80	16	9	0.18	Confessions of an Investment Manager-Turned-Human Being	KiteFlyer	14:26
81	15	8	0.17	My my my its been awhile	KitKatBar	00:42
82	15	6	0.16	High Impact Posts: July 23, 2014	jotter	12:24
83	15	30	0.21	Is the US Army War College Diploma Mill, and Will Democrats Lose a Senate Seat Because of It?	LunkHead	11:45
84	15	26	0.18	Updated Is There A Lawyer In The House???	rebel ga	00:53
85	15	14	0.17	The Gaza Conflict: A Suggestion of Semantics	m n e m o s y n e 4 2	14:33
86	15	8	0.16	Not Just the Atlantic: Obama Leasing Millions of Gulf Acres for Offshore Drilling	Steve Horn	12:41
87	15	7	0.17	AR-Sen: Tom Cotton (R) Touts Disaster Aid He Voted Against	p o o p d o g c o m e d y	15:24
88	15	7	0.16	Space and social distance	Horace Boothroyd III	17:16
89	14	30	0.18	Top Rep Senators Pay For Ads Calling Tea Party Racist!	b o o k c r a z z z y	10:36
90	14	28	0.20	$300 BILLION Robbery of Workers And Counting: Why We Need $20-An-Hour Minimum Wage	Tasini	15:43
91	14	17	0.17	GA-Sen: David Perdue (R) Scoffs At Michelle Nunn's (D) Experience Running Major Nonprofit	p o o p d o g c o m e d y	13:15
92	14	8	0.16	A few Republicans (but just a few) want to look (but only look) like they care about poor people	Laura Clawson	12:18
93	14	4	0.15	CT-Gov: Malloy (D) Explores Former Gateway College As Site For Border Children	p o o p d o g c o m e d y	11:02
94	14	2	0.15	ACA Signups: NEJM joins in: 5 major surveys confirm U.S. uninsured down 11-13 Million due to ACA	Brainwrap	14:30
95	13	55	0.19	Ukrainian Government Resigns	mimi	13:13
96	13	19	0.15	Sandy Rios: Male FBI Agents In Dresses  Will Come After You In The Wake Of Obama's ENDA EO	l i b r a r i s i n g n s f	13:48
97	11	87	0.21	Not Warren, but a challenger would be good	b r o o k l y n b a d b o y	11:02
98	11	29	0.20	Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: John Walsh hit by plagiarism allegations	Jeff Singer	08:00
99	10	56	0.18	Why Kos is wrong about Phoenix	UTRepub	16:14
100	10	46	0.15	GMO LABELING, SIMPLY SPEAKING	r g a n t i b u l l y	17:51
101	6	239	0.39	GBCW	Big Alin Wash St	10:51
102	5	115	0.26	No Warren Campaign	Jonathon Davis	18:07
103	4	165	0.38	The Left should be more supportive of Israel.	b l u e g o a t w o o d s	20:57
104	2	265	0.38	Daily Kos Elections Live Digest: 7/24	Jeff Singer	09:00

Impact total:   64.8

 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

Two Years Ago In Daily Kos

2012-07-23 00:00:21 - 2012-07-23 23:59:06
DailyKos posts = 239;  239 per day; 10.0 per hour
Active Kogs: 3694 (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

Kogs who	comment	recommend	write a post	only	all
comment	2239	1275	196	875	107
recommend	1275	2729	107	1454	107
write	196	107	197	1	107

Posts

posts with >	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	239	231	158	73	26
commenters	239	239	134	56	4
connections	239	231	201	99	31

Impact statistics from all 239 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.212, average = 0.51, max = 5.60, total =  122.9 bharns
r50 = 18 (at 1.73 bharns)

Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader  or writer) pairs: 13467
Maximum possible such pairs: 3694 x 197 = 727718
Network Density (observed/possible):  1.851%
Average degree (links/user) = 13467/3694 = 3.646

rank	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	EDT
1	529	200	5.60	DOMA: Sally Ride's Partner of 27 Years Denied Federal Benefits. Is Romney Smiling?	David Harris Gershon	20:22
2	511	182	5.44	A lesbian mother's chilling experience with Mitt Romney	Chrislove	21:08
3	498	136	5.27	They Wouldn't Pay You if They Could Get Away With It - UPDATED x 2	anonevent	22:20
4	441	85	4.64	The Mitt Romney image that says it all	c o n c e r n e d a m e r i c a n	12:51
5	406	314	4.44	Mitt Romney Embarrasses Australian Foreign Minister, Fails First International Test	eXtina	15:00
6	387	48	4.05	Tricks, Traps, and Accountability	Elizabeth Warren	13:14
7	360	52	3.78	Is "Tea Party, Inc." About to Be Exposed in Nevada?	atdnext	10:54
8	318	114	3.41	Several heroes gave their lives to save others in theater shooting	Meteor Blades	18:05
9	304	136	3.33	Obama campaign releases one-minute ad featuring president direct-to-camera	Jed Lewison	16:32
10	245	172	2.64	Things That Need to Change:  Punitive Attitudes Toward the Poor	glendenb	12:57

One Election Cycle Ago in Daily Kos

2010-07-22 00:00:01 - 2010-07-22 23:58:17
DailyKos posts = 233;  233 per day;  9.7 per hour
Active Kogs: 4146 (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

Kogs who	comment	recommend	write a post	only	all
comment	2634	1472	212	1039	89
recommend	1472	2978	89	1506	89
write	212	89	218	6	89

Posts

posts with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	233	194	122	45	16
commenters	233	233	152	61	11
connections	233	194	191	104	20

Impact statistics from all 233 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.180, average = 0.46, max = 7.77, total =  107.8 bharns
r50 = 10 (at 2.68 bharns)

Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader  or writer) pairs: 13305
Maximum possible such pairs: 4146 x 218 = 903828
Network Density (observed/possible):  1.472%
Average degree (links/user) = 13305/4146 = 3.209

rank	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	EDT
1	724	287	7.77	Death Threat: The Widening Gyre‏	Alan Grayson	13:51
2	581	1161	6.68	Why Does Fox News Have More Power Than Any Progressive in the Country?	Cenk Uygur	12:14
3	569	1273	6.54	Barack Obama is weak? Barack Obama is scared? No shame.	b l a c k w a t e r d o g	16:37
4	539	560	5.99	Two More Turncoat Dem Senators Want Tax Cuts for the RICH! Update w/Pelosi saying NO!	TomP	10:35
5	512	506	5.72	White House: Tax Cuts for Rich to Expire!	dansac	18:15
6	443	221	4.72	Maddow Deconstructs the Race-Baiting of Fox	Vyan	10:43
7	426	18	4.43	BP Catastrophe Liveblog Mothership: 58	Gulf Watchers	06:00
8	313	154	3.35	NC-Sen: Elaine Marshall LEADS Senator Burr!	Mike Nellis	18:16
9	281	236	3.17	Bachmann: Subpoenas for all when we win in November!	Louise	17:21
10	257	559	3.00	The White House Is Not "Scared" of FOX "News" and FOX "News" Is Not Innocent	Muzikal203	10:33