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Clearly my essay blogging is geared ever more towards the general population.
Funny thing: while making some diagrams for this post, I needed a table of Riemann zeta function values. My CRC Mathematical Tables and Formulas didn’t have it, so I reached for Billingsley’s Probability and Measure, but before I opened it I googled “Riemann zeta function table,” and found what I needed.
This Internet thing is worth saving, really.
According to Google Analytics, the most popular post of 2011 across my three blogs was my 2009 post on preparing presentations. The one that opens with
Most presentations are terrible, and that’s a choice made by the presenter.
(Well, since almost every post I write about presentations here or on the essay blog links back to that one, that’s not very surprising.)
The 2011 essay post that got most page views was the post “Angelina Jolie shows problems with some economics models.” Though it’s not really surprising, given the title, I hasten to point out that Ms Jolie was not my choice; it was the original Freakonomics blogger choice. Fave line:
Ms. Jolie is rich and famous, so she didn’t get the job by sexing the producer.
The runner-up was the post “Why can’t copyright ‘reformers’ understand minor business points.” This post was the clear winner in email annoyances generated. I felt positively like Mark Helprin, in the beginning of his book Digital Barbarism. Fave line:
A first step towards a rational discussion of copyright is to accept that actions other than content creation have value. Cory still hasn’t taken that step.
The long post on this blog that got most views was “Free software and obstructed minds,” which also was the one that generated most email traffic. My fave line:
That really bothers some people. All those free bits, just zeros and ones, and Mr. Jobs became a billionaire selling them. Why didn’t he give his bits away for free?
Activity in my online commonplace book of teaching and research material is limited since its target audiences are the classes I’m teaching starting in 2012; there are already followers and page views, but the numbers are too small for a statistician to take them seriously as an indication of anything.
Strangely enough, one of the old specialized teaching blogs, the one for the 2010 Consumer Behavior class at TheLisbonMBA continues to get several page views per day, with the most viewed post of 2011 being “A look back at the last five years of social media.”
My most viewed photo of 2011 was “Working on paper, mostly,” which is an artifact of the “getting things done” tag. But I think it’s a useful photo, so here:
My most viewed video of 2011 was a review of my SLR sling bag:
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