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The most viewed stories of 2012 on this site? You’d be surprised.
I was.
(Speaking of surprises, I have one or two of my own. I’ll get to them in a minute.)
But first, the list:
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5,000 posts.
That’s a remarkable milestone, considering that most of the posts are stories that take days, even months, to research and write.
Here are the five most popular posts that have appeared on this site since it launched in 1996.
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If there’s a trend in the top blog posts of 2010, it is this: You like to be shocked.
Nothing brought in readers quite like stories about unconstitutional TSA patdowns, flight attendants flipping out and fees gone wild.
Oh, and you like reading about yourself, too.
This year’s top post, 10 travel blogs you should bookmark in 2010, is an example.
My methodology for pulling together a list of the top 10 travel blogs (I consulted my RSS reader) wasn’t going to win me any journalism prizes, but so what? They don’t give away prizes for the kind of journalism I do, anyway.
But since I was short-listed for the Pulitzer earlier this year, I tried compiling a list with a better methodology: a reader poll. It didn’t seem to carry as much weight and ended up ticking off a lot of my travel blogging friends, who felt snubbed when they didn’t win.
Sorry, guys. I’ll go back to my RSS reader for the 2011 list, which should be out any day now. And if it’s any consolation, I don’t win any popularity contests, either. Who would vote for a consumer advocacy blog?
Here are the other nine stories:
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