Some rare evidence against the continuing decline of Livejournal: last year I counted only 26 posts with 12 or more comments from the previous twelve months, compared with 32 with at least 15 comments the year before and 42 with at least 20 from three years ago. This year I have 37 posts above last year’s threshold of 12 comments, though we are still down compared to previous years’ cutoffs (22 had 15 or more comments, 13 had 20 or more). Perhaps I was just writing more interesting stuff. The top posts from the last twelve-ish months were:
30 December: December Books 23) A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee. – 16 comments
31 December: My 2011 books poll – 15 comments
15 January: Sunday number theory problem – 14 comments
15 January: Scotland the Brave – 23 comments
18 January: Measures thou see art but trifles – 27 comments
29 January: When e-government goes bad – 30 comments
5 February: My second submission to the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland – 12 comments
11 February: Eastercon: I will be there; will you? – 36 comments
26 February: Scotland and Ireland in the British Parliament – 15 comments
26 February: Cambridge architecture question – 19 comments
28 February: “Mustard keen” – 29 comments
29 February: paw/pour/poor poll – 20 comments
10 March: [locked post] – 14 comments
2 April: A post for World Autism Awareness Day – 30 comments
5 April: Bad writing – 13 comments
11 April: Eastercon – 18 comments
26 April: 45 – 18 comments
10 May: 2012 Hugos: Best Novel – 12 comments
19 May: My reading speed – 14 comments
23 May: Links I found interesting for 23-05-2012 – 14 comments
25 May: Links I found interesting for 25-05-2012 – 14 comments
31 May: The Book of Job – 17 comments
1 June: Links I found interesting for 01-06-2012 – 14 comments
8 June: Hugos 2012: The John W. Campbell Award (Not A Hugo) – 13 comments
12 July: Language quiz: answer and poll – 23 comments
26 July: Poll: The BSFA, Clarke and Tiptree winners – 13 comments
25 August: Geopolitics: Sweden vs the UK – 17 comments
3 September: 2012 Hugo voting analysis – 14 comments
11 September: Links I found interesting for 11-09-2012 – 12 comments
13 September: [locked post] – 36 comments
24 September: Culinary meme – 14 comments
26 September: Quick pop quiz – 22 comments – [What is a paradiddle?]
13 October: Election choices – 18 comments
29 November: November Books 15) Between the Continent and the Open Sea, by David Rennie – 22 comments
16 December – Getting all three to look at the camera – 12 comments
22 December- Locus Poll of Best Novels – 21 comments