Front page Impact June 11-17 2005

On the front page this week 10 Kosmopolitan authors posted 87 stories. There were in addition 20 open threads.

All front page stories with impact > 0.3 are shown below, sorted by number of recommendations. Eighty-three (83) user recommendations are awarded to each front page story, though none to open threads. As a result, the greater part of the list appears sorted by number of comments, with open threads active enough to exceed the impact cutoff appearing at the bottom.

Tables showing diaries per day and diaries by author are also provided.

Sat Jun 11 00:00:00 2005 - Fri Jun 17 23:59:59 2005

DailyKos diaries = 107; 15 per day; 0.6 per hour

month	day	diaries	*
06	11	10	**********
06	12	17	*****************
06	13	9	*********
06	14	16	****************
06	15	16	****************
06	16	15	***************
06	17	24	************************

Active Kosmopolitans: 11
Exclusive Authors: 11; Author/Readers: 0; Total Authors: 11
Exclusive Readers: 0; Author/Readers: 0; Total Readers: 0

Diaries: posted 107, withdrawn: 0, remaining: 107, recommended {1: 0, 10: 0, 30: 0}.

rank	nrec	ncom	impact	Diary	Author	Date
1	83	457	1.075	Our core values, Part I	kos	06/12
2	83	448	1.064	Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!	Bill in Portland Maine	06/17
3	83	412	1.020	Listening at dailykos	Armando	06/12
4	83	394	0.999	22nd Amendment	kos	06/15
5	83	362	0.963	Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday	Bill in Portland Maine	06/14
6	83	320	0.918	Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday	Bill in Portland Maine	06/15
7	83	314	0.912	Senators who refused to sign anti lynching resolution	kos	06/14
8	83	293	0.891	Our Core Values, Part II	kos	06/12
9	83	277	0.876	Biden (D-MBNA)	kos	06/14
10	83	268	0.868	The latest moronic Right-Wing smear attack	kos	06/15
11	83	266	0.866	Who didn't sign lynching bill?	kos	06/13
12	83	256	0.857	Recruiter stories	kos	06/14
13	83	249	0.851	Time to axe Nancy Grace	kos	06/15
14	83	241	0.844	DNC exec committee: 'we don't want a wimp'	kos	06/12
15	83	237	0.841	Our Core Values, Part III	kos	06/13
16	83	232	0.837	Scotty's defense of "last throes"	kos	06/16
17	83	230	0.835	Frist is a terrible doctor	kos	06/15
18	83	228	0.834	The Downing Street Minutes may be old news	colinb	06/17
19	83	218	0.826	Mercenaries	kos	06/11
20	83	208	0.818	Lynching Wall of Shame	kos	06/14
21	83	208	0.818	War preacher on recruitment	kos	06/14
22	83	204	0.815	The Outrage	Armando	06/17
23	83	202	0.814	SUSA polls all Senators	kos	06/14
24	83	202	0.814	Brass: 'we won't solve this with bullets'	kos	06/13
25	83	200	0.812	Powerline Loves Gitmo	Armando	06/17
26	83	198	0.811	MD-Sen: Steele will form exploratory committee	kos	06/15
27	83	196	0.809	Bush still going down, down, down	kos	06/16
28	83	188	0.804	New Secret British Cabinet Memo	pontificator	06/12
29	83	175	0.795	Flag burning amendment	kos	06/16
30	83	169	0.791	The right-wing blogger aristocracy	kos	06/13
31	83	166	0.789	Danforth Rejects The Party of Dobson	Armando	06/17
32	83	156	0.783	U.S. Public: 'Get out of Iraq!'	kos	06/13
33	83	155	0.783	Sunday Talk	Al Rodgers	06/11
34	83	154	0.782	Ed Kilgore of DLC On Dean	Armando	06/11
35	83	151	0.780	Direct Assault on the Right To Privacy By Wisconsin GOP	Armando	06/17
36	83	150	0.780	July, 2002	Hunter	06/17
37	83	150	0.780	Lying on lynching vote	kos	06/14
38	83	150	0.780	Dean re: Fox	kos	06/12
39	83	145	0.777	WA-Sen: GOoPer poll	kos	06/11
40	83	144	0.777	Despicable	Armando	06/17
41	83	143	0.776	DCCC polling gives Dems big hopes	kos	06/16
42	83	129	0.769	White House defends torture	kos	06/16
43	83	129	0.769	Newsweek's Howard Fineman praises Dean's fundraising	daveweigel	06/12
44	83	127	0.768	More on Durbin	kos	06/16
45	83	125	0.767	Greenspan the communist	kos	06/17
46	83	123	0.766	NJ-Gov: Tighter than expected	kos	06/12
47	83	119	0.764	Damn, Philly is desperate for celebrities	kos	06/15
48	83	118	0.764	Bush Plans Iraq Offensive . . . in the US	Armando	06/17
49	83	118	0.764	Sunnis Reject Iraq Government Offer on Power Sharing	Armando	06/12
50	83	118	0.764	How to *NOT* Build an Iraqi Military, for Dummies	RangerShade	06/11
51	83	115	0.762	Iraq, US losing patience with mercenaries	kos	06/12
52	83	113	0.761	Washington Times: partisan hacks	kos	06/17
53	83	112	0.761	GOoPer congressman going down, down, down	kos	06/12
54	83	109	0.760	OH-2: special election primary results	kos	06/15
55	83	108	0.759	PA-Sen: Teresa making amends	kos	06/16
56	83	104	0.758	Perspective	Hunter	06/17
57	83	104	0.758	Downing Street Memo clip	kos	06/14
58	83	103	0.757	For Our Daughters	Armando	06/17
59	83	103	0.757	The Role of the Reporter and the Blogger	Armando	06/17
60	83	103	0.757	Frist office lies about lynching roll call	kos	06/15
61	83	95	0.754	NY-Gov, Sen: latest numbers	kos	06/14
62	83	92	0.753	Iranian Women Protest Sex Discrimination	Armando	06/12
63	83	90	0.752	Frist Lies	Armando	06/17
64	83	90	0.752	D-trip versus Dana Milbank	kos	06/17
65	83	88	0.752	Hollow Army: "freedom fries" himself wants a pullout	kos	06/12
66	83	86	0.751	CSS, followup	kos	06/15
67	83	84	0.750	2008-pres: Richardson promotes Western primary	kos	06/15
68	83	83	0.750	Bush Administration: 'we can lock them up forever'	kos	06/16
69	83	82	0.750	Training Democrats to do the right thing	kos	06/16
70	83	78	0.748	GOP game plan for 2006	kos	06/16
71	83	77	0.748	May, 1999	Hunter	06/17
72	83	73	0.747	House votes for Patriot Act limits	kos	06/15
73	83	73	0.747	Dean, the media, and Mehlman	kos	06/14
74	83	72	0.747	Convio follow up	kos	06/17
75	83	69	0.746	Schweitzer to the rescue	kos	06/12
76	83	68	0.745	FEC Comissioner Bradley speaks (again)	kos	06/13
77	83	58	0.743	Hollow Military: Acadamy applications plummet	kos	06/14
78	83	53	0.742	Reid floor statement on Bolton	kos	06/16
79	83	50	0.741	More GOP stench	kos	06/15
80	83	49	0.741	Say No To Torture	Armando	06/17
81	83	47	0.741	AR-Gov: Beebe to enter race	kos	06/14
82	83	45	0.740	Science Sunday: the cost and consequences of biodefense research	Plutonium Page	06/12
83	83	42	0.740	US to Iraq: Listen to the UN	Armando	06/11
84	83	37	0.739	Austin DemFest	kos	06/16
85	83	34	0.739	"Killing Spree" In Iraq	Armando	06/11
86	83	26	0.738	My blogfather	kos	06/17
87	83	19	0.737	Mukhtaran Bibi	Armando	06/17
88		270	0.463	Person-Made Open Thread	openthread	06/11
89		242	0.415	Midday open thread	openthread	06/15

Impact total: 70.154

The analysis of authors includes total impact, number of diaries, and the average impact per diary.

Author	impact	diaries	impact/diary
kos	46.08	58	0.79
Armando	13.28	17	0.78
openthread	4.02	20	0.20
Bill in Portland Maine	2.94	3	0.98
Hunter	2.29	3	0.76
colinb	0.83	1	0.83
pontificator	0.80	1	0.80
Al Rodgers	0.78	1	0.78
daveweigel	0.77	1	0.77
RangerShade	0.76	1	0.76
Plutonium Page	0.74	1	0.74

Impact sum: 73.293

      rec  = number of diaries recommended
   authors = number of authors recommended
   TopHits = number of recommended diaries in top hit list
conversion = 100 * TopHits/rec; percent of recommended diaries on top hit list
     ratio = TopHits/predicted, where
   predicted = ntop * rec/ndiaries, where
	   ntop = number of diaries in top hit list = 100
       ndiaries = total number of diaries  = 107

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 in the week. Please bring any errors to my attention -- jotter