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Top ten posts for 2007
December 24, 2007
Here are Rough Type's ten most read posts during 2007 (total page views for the year in parentheses):
1. Adblock Plus: the nuclear plug-in (67,261)
2. The social graft (56,353)
3. Slutbot aces Turing Test* (46,909)
4. Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians (38,029)
5. The amorality of Web 2.0 (27,158)
6. Microsoft seeks mind-reading patent (24,896)
7. Google preparing to police web (19,135)
8. Steve's devices (15,578)
9. IT doesn't matter, part 1 (12,784)
10. Google, Apple and the future of personal computing (11,643)
"Amorality" was originally published in 2005. "Avatars" was originally published in 2006. The rest were published this year.
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Comments
Funny that you recently consider using AdBlock as a rarity, and it's your hottest post — funnier that you weren't really yourself: immoral, indeed, but such a releave, if I remember right?
Posted by: Bertil
at December 26, 2007 10:08 AM
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