"Best of FSK" - August 2010

I wrote a PHP script that parses my Google Analytics statistics. Now, I can make a list of my most popular posts per month.

In August 2010, my most popular posts by Absolute Unique Pageviews were:

1. Did the USA Declare Bankruptcy? (353)
2. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (337)
3. Real GDP is Decreasing, 1990-2008 (279)
4. The Pat Tillman Conspiracy Theory (218)
5. Ruby on Rails Sucks! (200)
6. Who's the Richest Man in the World? (178)
7. The Hunt Brothers' Silver Corner (177)
8. The Monetizing the Debt Scam (136)
9. The Compound Interest Paradox (125)
10. Premium Text Messaging Fraud - 91097 and 654654 (120)
11. Got a Virus - Antivir Solution Pro (110)
12. Verizon LG enV Touch, Bitpim, and Open Source (97)
13. BMI/ASCAP/SESAC Legal Extortion Scam (91)
14. Real GDP is Decreasing, 1990-2007 (87)
15. Satanic Death Hospitals (85)
16. The Gold Lease Rate is Negative! (82)
17. Real GDP Is Crashing, 2000-2009 (80)
18. The Five Levels of the Economy (77)
19. The Federal Reserve Caused the Great Depression (76)
20. Agorist Grilled Cheese Seller In NYC (66)
21. The Black-Scholes Formula is Wrong! - Part 1/12 - Overview and Background (56)
22. StackOverflow Sucks! (56)
23. 1099 Reporting and Healthcare Reform (55)

Just counting posts published in August, the best were:

1. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (337)
2. Got a Virus - Antivir Solution Pro (110)
3. BMI/ASCAP/SESAC Legal Extortion Scam (91)
4. Agorist Grilled Cheese Seller In NYC (66)
5. The Fallacy of Nullification (50)
6. Free Keene Foolishness (48)

"The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" got a boost from a reddit thread. I left some comments in the thread, but I rapidly remembered "Debating idiots on someone else's forum is a waste of time." With Reddit, you get a lot of traffic in a short period of time, but not much after that. If you miss the first few hours after the item is posted, you've missed most of the traffic.

I also notice that some social networking sites are discussing my blog. However, due to the way they work, I don't get to see the specific referring source. The link is usually something like www.website.com/script.php?xxxx, but the part after '?' isn't recorded by Google Analytics.