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The Best of Bill - 2007

Monday, December 31, 2007

It's time for the last post of 2007. On December 31, 2004, I created a "Best of Bill" posting for 2004 and it was quite popular (based on the number of unique hits the posting got). So, I continued the tradition for 2005 and 2006 and am now doing the same for 2007. My 2007 posting is cumulative, so it includes the best postings from previous years as well.

It's hard to know which posts others find most interesting; but, hit counts and email comments seem to be as good a measure as any. So, a feature that I introduced to the summary (from 2006 onward) is that I've flagged (using "[*]" as the "flag") the post that either got the most "hits" on my blog each month or ones that resulted in a significant amount of email to me. In several cases, it was too close to call, so I listed multiple high-ranking posts for some months. However, when one of my posts appears on Reddit or Digg, that always drives up the page count even though the post may not be what I would have considered a "high-ranking" post. For example, the post that got the highest number of hits on my blog this year was The reason there's a "Cult of Mac" with 71,971 hits. However, it took almost no time to write the post and it had no Lisp content! The 2nd highest scoring post was Why you should buy an OLPC XO Laptop (24,587 hits) which only barely mentioned Lisp. The third highest scoring post was Mac OS X GeekTool (15,501 hits) which also had no Lisp content. Interestingly, the Lisp-related posts that had the most hits were the Emacs-related ones: Emacs Running All The Time (5,596 hits), Distel = Emacs erlang-mode++ (4,947 hits), and Emacs and Google Calendars (4,674 hits). Coming in just behind these posts was my highest-ranking CL-related post for the year: Lisp with Batteries Included (4,087 hits).

You can always find my past weblog postings by either drilling down from the monthly summaries (available when you click on the month name in the calendar in the side bar or by clicking on the month name in the summary below) or by using the search utility (also in the side bar); however, New Year's Eve is traditionally a time for thinking back on the past year (see here, here, and here), so I went back through my previous postings and picked out the ones that I thought were my better posts. The posts that I chose are either:

I have deliberately tried to leave out of the summary any postings that are personal, or product/meeting announcements, or non-Lisp related (although my definition of "lisp-related" might be fairly "broad" in some cases ;-) ).

Best wishes for 2008 and here is the summary:

2007:
  1. January:
  2. February:
  3. March:
  4. April:
  5. May:
  6. June:
  7. July:
  8. August:
  9. September:
  10. October:
  11. November:
  12. December:

2006:

  1. January:
  2. February:
  3. March:
  4. April:
  5. May:
  6. June:
  7. July:
  8. August:
  9. September:
  10. October:
  11. November:
  12. December:

2005:

  1. January:
  2. February:
  3. March:
  4. April:
  5. May:
  6. June:
  7. July:
  8. August:
  9. September:
  10. October:
  11. November:
  12. December:

2004:

  1. January:
  2. February:
  3. March:
  4. April:
  5. May:
  6. June:
  7. July:
  8. August:
  9. September:
  10. October:
  11. November:
  12. December:

2003:

  1. August:
  2. September:
  3. October:
  4. November:
  5. December:

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