High Impact Diaries - May 3, 2005

Update [2005-5-4 11:36:43 by jotter]: Thanks to Carnacki for pointing out his missing diary.

Yesterday 220 221 Kosmopolitan authors posted 252 253 diaries, of which 6 were later withdrawn, 235 236 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 1423 1447 recommending readers; 80 81 diaries were recommended by 10 or more readers, 18 19 by 30 or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 7:30 AM May 4; diaries posted less than 24 hours before that remained open for recommendation at that time.

Tue May 3 00:00:00 2005 - Tue May 3 23:59:59 2005

DailyKos diaries = 253; 253 per day; 10.5 per hour
Active Kosmopolitans: 1570
Exclusive Authors: 123; Author/Readers: 98; Total Authors: 221
Exclusive Readers: 1349; Author/Readers: 98; Total Readers: 1447

Diaries: posted 253, withdrawn: 6, remaining: 247, recommended {1: 236, 10: 81, 30: 19}.

rank	nrec	ncom	impact	Diary	Author	time
1	243	73	2.159	Save Greg Palast	misty	09:02 PDT
2	220	190	1.979	Amazing Political Video on Leno	Pitviper	20:08 PDT
3	206	143	1.844	Social Security Reform a Diversion: Robert Reich	wobblie	03:16 PDT
4	156	68	1.389	Yemeni Mother Spared From Firing Squad, For Now	SusanHu	07:29 PDT
5	130	29	1.154	PDB: May 3, 2005	Soj	13:42 PDT
6	129	54	1.148	Weeping in the gymnasium: one local triumph	renaissance grrrl	22:04 PDT
7	114	409	1.230	Top Ten Funniest Creationist Statements of All Time	DarkSyde	09:14 PDT
8	112	473	1.282	Court rules against witches; only state-sanctioned prayers allowed	Carnacki	09:24 PDT
9	102	101	0.921	On Ann Coulter and the Police State	krikkit4	21:43 PDT
10	87	46	0.776	Answering Your Questions at Frist Filibuster -- 3PM	Chuck Pennacchio for US Senate	08:25 PDT
11	83	146	0.778	Nuclear Option Round-up. Where do we stand?	Kagro X	12:54 PDT
12	79	84	0.715	US Economic Snapshot - Not A Pretty Picture	LondonYank	03:15 PDT
13	68	41	0.607	FL: Bush's DCF Defies Judges Order for Abortion	norwood	01:11 PDT
14	61	50	0.548	Ohio for Jesus 2006	Pounder	18:28 PDT
15	56	211	0.614	I Am Not Pastor John	pastordan	07:32 PDT
16	53	56	0.480	America's Mortal Secret	teacherken	05:35 PDT
17	50	60	0.455	Today is Childhood Depression Awareness Day	Mrs Pastor	07:43 PDT
18	44	116	0.438	'Daily Show' Funnyman Colbert Gets Show	AlphaGeek	18:36 PDT
19	31	19	0.277	End the Sex Tax	Stirling Newberry	07:54 PDT
20	29	69	0.283	5/3 papers: Multiple Bush admin. Failures on National Security & Foreign Policy	Newsie8200	01:00 PDT
21	29	69	0.283	It starts early: My daughter tries to understand sexism	lorraine	17:56 PDT
22	29	16	0.259	GOP "Tort Reform" Stalinists Boooo! America Yeeaaa!	BenGoshi	06:08 PDT
23	25	37	0.231	This is What I'm Talking About	DarkSyde	14:08 PDT
24	24	17	0.215	Democrat of the Day: Gov. Ted Kulongoski (D-OR)	Delaware Dem	13:02 PDT
25	24	4	0.213	Democrat of the Day: Sander Levin (D-MI 12th)	Delaware Dem	07:01 PDT
26	23	20	0.207	Is the WH Press Corps growing a Pair?	Magorn	16:20 PDT
27	23	8	0.204	Firebug at the Fed	Stirling Newberry	15:20 PDT
28	22	114	0.276	Why we voted Kerry/Edwards last November	BobcatJH	09:09 PDT
29	22	5	0.195	Today's Economic News: Fed has Senior Moment	bonddad	15:47 PDT
30	21	19	0.189	How long?	lorraine	09:42 PDT
31	21	10	0.187	'Iraqis wait for better days that never come'	Jerome a Paris	07:45 PDT
32	20	24	0.182	WTF Are We Willing to Sacrifice?	dksbook	14:43 PDT
33	19	92	0.231	Battleground MN? Pharmacists refusing to dispense Birth Control	treehugger	07:08 PDT
34	18	28	0.167	A Teacher's National Teacher Day Rant - about parents	peregrina	11:29 PDT
35	18	14	0.161	Gloves are off over Denver Three, Mystery Man	coloradobl	00:14 PDT
36	18	13	0.161	WA Gov: Judge Bridges giveth and taketh, but mostly taketh	torridjoe	16:27 PDT
37	17	15	0.153	Brazil rejects 40 Million in AIDS funding from the United States	Bobo62	22:44 PDT
38	17	12	0.152	House Dems to Fight Back Against GOP Lies	DemDuck	12:25 PDT
39	17	6	0.151	Why I keep writing letters: one small story	seesdifferent	16:30 PDT
40	16	68	0.184	Gannon did "secret work for which he needed security clearance"?	Elizabeth D	11:29 PDT
41	16	37	0.155	NPR joins the anti-blog whine-fest	Tom Ames	17:18 PDT
42	16	20	0.146	Say 'No' to Nukes - Filibuster Flyer	Lestatdelc	15:50 PDT
43	16	17	0.145	Leonard Pitts: A Gay Holocaust?	jgkojak	13:02 PDT
44	16	11	0.143	A container for eggs and a uterus	epiguy	05:05 PDT
45	16	6	0.142	Bush trying to close Manhattan VA AGAIN	Ptolemy	07:43 PDT
46	16	6	0.142	War in Iraq : the deadliest for the media since Vietnam	Jerome a Paris	16:30 PDT
47	16	6	0.142	FDIC Real Estate Report: Concern May be Overblown	bonddad	12:45 PDT
48	15	31	0.143	FL: Bush abides by law: Teen can abort	norwood	12:03 PDT
49	15	23	0.139	Making it on Minimum Wage Reality Show	jillian	09:54 PDT
50	15	16	0.136	Intellectual Relativism: The Right's Vice	QuinnC	13:44 PDT
51	15	15	0.136	The Most Telling Question	catnip	15:16 PDT
52	15	9	0.134	Buzzflash interviews the Inestimable Bob Herbert	blksista	20:46 PDT
53	15	8	0.134	Bush's SS Plan Screws Middle Class	bonddad	07:58 PDT
54	14	31	0.135	Confirmed: Repub Congressman had Affair with Choking Victim	pontificator	20:16 PDT
55	14	28	0.133	Pharmacists refusing Birth Control--Bad for Pro-lifers	LisaLL	08:19 PDT
56	14	15	0.127	The War on Children	em dash	22:16 PDT
57	14	13	0.126	Berlusconi edited Sgrena report to favor US position	DuctapeFatwa	06:08 PDT
58	14	13	0.126	Email Keith Olbermann RE: John Conyer's Letter	Hummingbird	11:13 PDT
59	14	11	0.126	Latest: Bolton Makes the Messes Dubya Wants Cleaned Up	Limelite	20:34 PDT
60	14	7	0.125	Eight Hours for What We Will	Kahli	06:22 PDT
61	13	47	0.141	No Wonder	Militarytracy	20:01 PDT
62	13	26	0.124	Framing the Evolution Debate	House	21:34 PDT
63	13	22	0.121	Destroying Gay/Straight Alliances in 10 Easy Steps!!	allentownboy	09:56 PDT
64	13	15	0.118	Draft Watch: US military in deep shit. The Italians are correct.	nyceve	08:24 PDT
65	13	13	0.117	Lynndie England not Allowed to Admit Direct Order	ortsed	07:51 PDT
66	13	11	0.117	Can The Culture of Death please help Knya Dismuke?	ignu	10:05 PDT
67	13	5	0.116	Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 135	RubDMC	10:46 PDT
68	12	27	0.116	'Pro-life' Democrats - and other jokes	tiponeill	21:18 PDT
69	12	19	0.111	Prophetic Voices, A Religious Call to Action	tikkun	17:45 PDT
70	12	13	0.109	Gannon, ePluribus Media in June Vanity Fair	AaronBa	12:05 PDT
71	12	9	0.108	Objective Journalism v. No Opinion Journalism.	ohwilleke	16:53 PDT
72	12	7	0.107	Blair Iraq Memo: the Nuclear Option	realitique	12:35 PDT
73	12	6	0.107	Funding the Religious Right Doctrine	allentownboy	12:02 PDT
74	12	6	0.107	High Impact Diaries - May 2, 2005	jotter	10:01 PDT
75	11	25	0.107	Public TV is Doomed - Let's DO SOMETHING!	kentclark	05:13 PDT
76	11	19	0.103	Count me for Aimee Allison	kid oakland	21:41 PDT
77	11	10	0.099	Action alert: Bush backtracking on Darfur	Waveflux	14:03 PDT
78	10	26	0.099	Sick Chuckle - Freepers and Bush's Pull the Plug Law	jbane	15:23 PDT
79	10	13	0.091	Pat Robertson's Unholy Alliance	Lissy	17:15 PDT
80	10	9	0.090	Gonzales Flip-Flops on Priscilla Owen	davfoster88	13:19 PDT
81	10	4	0.089	UK Military Families Against the War v. Blair	Gary J	15:19 PDT
82	9	20	0.087	Kangro X Speaks, DSCC Listens	QWQ	10:49 PDT
83	9	19	0.086	Evangelicals: Attack of the Clones	NeverSummer	13:48 PDT
84	8	49	0.110	File your FCC complaint against Laura Bush...	Big Time Patriot	13:53 PDT
85	8	46	0.106	Water, water everywhere... investment opportunity?	la motocycliste	14:23 PDT
86	8	41	0.100	Is True Progressivism Dead?	SlackerInc	15:38 PDT
87	8	29	0.087	Daily Gotham : Because New York politics needs to get kossacked	liza	14:03 PDT
88	7	100	0.182	Is Lou Dobbs A Moron?	Armando	21:31 PDT
89	6	67	0.127	Another Jesus Sighting!	Stand Strong	13:13 PDT
90	5	82	0.147	A War Of The Americas?	Rimjob	21:36 PDT
91	5	59	0.110	The Secret Revelation to Bush's Foreign Policy	unitedelite	10:01 PDT
92	3	80	0.140	Lyndie England the Victim	StevetheWeave	16:51 PDT
93	1	63	0.108	Vanilla Ice is correct, and the kids aren't all right.	desiunion	22:06 PDT

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