Fun With Ten

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(C)Copyright 2010, C. Burke. All rights reserved.


I went to Comic-Con, but I didn't see Ben-10-10-10 -- or Rin-10-10-10, for that matter.
I did meet some webcomic people, which was fun.

FYI: I used 20-pt type for the "Ten. Ten. Ten." So the date is complete.

Remember: In the Archives, nobody can tell you're late.

The Top 10 (x, why?) Comics of 2009

The Top 10 Comics of 2009
by number of hits on the comicgensis.com site, as measured by Google Analytics.

This doesn't account for the number of times that people landed on the main page and read whatever was there. Also, it doesn't account for the fact that Comic Genesis had its own counting service, which was discontinued, so I didn't start the GA account until after 2009 had already begun.

One again, there were a number of 2008 strips that were clicked on in 2009, mostly from the start of the run, telling me that people went back to the beginning, read a bunch and, sadly, gave up. Hopefully, they decided just to read the newer comics. Maybe I've aged well.


1. Electron Day, Part 2 (Go figure. I can't.)
2. Combining Like Terms (More like it.)
3. Circle in the Square (Which became a crossover comic.)
4. Plotting (A personal favorite)
5. Speed Limit II
6. Through a Window Darkly, Part IV (Yes, Part IV!)
7. Through a Window Darkly, Part III
8. But Wait, There's More! (More Ronco than Billy Mays)
9. Pizza Day
10. Guess and Check

Pizza Day also has the honor of being the comic with the most Diggs with 12. A low number to be sure, but way ahead of second place, which has 4.

The Top 10 Blog Posts of 2009

The Top 10 Blog Posts of 2009
by number of visits, as measured by Google Analytics.

This doesn't account for the number of times that people just clicked on the blog itself and read whatever was on the main page.

1. Top Taco
2. Bardic Geometry
3. How Cold Is It?
4. List of Pythagoeran Triples 3-50
5. Motivational Math Poster (*)
6. Fear
7. Oxymoron
8. St. Patrick's Day 2009
9. Fantasy Island
10. Sammy Davis, Jr., Mathematician.

(*) -- not my image. I found it and posted it.

For what it's worth, the following posts from 2008 outperformed some of the ones above in 2009. I don't know if that's because people are reading the archives, or they're finding links in Google or maybe hitting here through StumbleUpon or Digg.

Reflection over the X-axis (Number 1 overall), What's a Parabola?, Qwerty Smileys and Famous Movie Math Quotes #12 (there haven't been any others, so far), plus some monthly archives.

It's nice to see some non-cartoon stuff in the list.
Also, if a link is broken, please, let me know. Some of the older links are still pointing to geocities instead of my new storage site. I'm (slowly) working on it.