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A Gonzo Journal: The Best Of 2005

In 2005, my blog served 2.2 million unique pageviews (5.2 million hits) to 540,000 unique visitors for a total of 54.25GB of bandwidth consumed. This represents a 1155% jump in traffic compared to the 2004.

Wow! That’s a lot of pages. That’s a lot of bandwidth. Luckily every single image is hosted on flickr or I would have a massive bandwidth bill.

I would like to thank all readers of My Gonzo Journal, for your support. Why you folk keep reading my crap, I will never understand. But I will try to keep producing more rubbish next year so please keep coming back.

2005 was a very good year for bloggers in Singapore. The media lauded and crucified us at the same time. We broke new ground. We had a bloggers convention. Everybody has a blog. People who don’t will soon start one. Blogging is not a trend, it’s a way of life. Blogging is here to stay, and it’s only going to keep getting better.

Remember, don’t start a blog because you want to be famous. Blog, because you have no mouth but must scream.

I installed a popularity plugin early on in 2005. It’s the reason why a popularity value appears after each post I publish. The plugin has been tracking my posts all throughout the year and now I am able to present to you for the first time evar, a comprehensive list of posts that were instrumental in polluting, corrupting and entertaining the blogizens of Singapore in 2005. Enjoy!

Top 10 Most Popular Posts

1. Bloggers You Really Should Visit Sometime Part 1
2. Decisions, Decisions…
3. Minishorts, What Hast Thou Done Now?
4. Almost Daily Linkorama Part 117
5. All Of Them
6. Another Earthquake Hits Northern Sumatra
7. Don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does
8. Which One Flips Your Switch?
9. How To Build An Audience For Your Blog
10. It’s The Magic HIV Positive Story Hour

Top 5 Most Discussed

1. Bad News
2. The Worst Is Confirmed
3. Love Is A Supermarket
4. Your Privacy And Your Blog Are Mutually Inclusive
5. Almost Daily Interviews part 3 (Adri of Popagandhi)

Top 5 Categories

1. Guestblogging
2. Travel Writer Articles
3. Interviews
4. Guides/How-to’s
5. Movie Reviews and Blogosphere (it was a tie)

Top 5 Permalinks

1. Almost Daily Interviews part 4 (Dolls Gone Wild)
2. Puffy Nipples: Sarong Party Gal
3. Until The Last Day, Until We Meet
4. Naeboo Fan Club
5. Almost Daily Interviews part 1 (MrMiyagi)

Top 5 Feed Views

1. Starbucks Open House 2005 Pandemonium
2. His Is Bigger Then The Rest Of Us
3. It’s So Sad
4. Movie Review: The Lion, The Witch And That Dratted Wardrobe
5. Our Coffeshop

i could never comprehend how the popularity percentage works….