{"id":4383,"date":"2011-10-14T22:56:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T21:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=4383"},"modified":"2011-10-14T22:56:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T21:56:58","slug":"my-most-popular-postings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/my-most-popular-postings\/","title":{"rendered":"My most popular blog postings ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a look at my most popular blog postings:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Blog posting<\/th>\n<th>Views<\/th>\n<th>Comment<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/27\/1297\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to make business cards in LaTeX<\/a><\/td>\n<td>5,004<\/td>\n<td>A very useful posting for people wanting to make their own business cards using LaTeX.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/16\/139\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bj\u00f8rnebanden er hunde!<\/a><\/td>\n<td>2,476<\/td>\n<td>Just pointing out that the <i>Beagle Boys<\/i> in Danish are called the &#8220;Bear Gang&#8221;, which is a bit odd given that they clearly aren&#8217;t depicted as bears.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/16\/1558\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hvilke partier er t\u00e6ttest p\u00e5 hinanden?<\/a><\/td>\n<td>2,385<\/td>\n<td>A Danish political analysis.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/17\/408\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More about pizza ovens<\/a><\/td>\n<td>1,350<\/td>\n<td>Discussing what kind of pizza oven I&#8217;d build in our garden if money was no object.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/10\/895\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stem blankt!<\/a><\/td>\n<td>1,223<\/td>\n<td>Telling people not to vote yes or no in the referendum on abolishing male primogeniture in Denmark.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/14\/1327\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Which voting system should you use for choosing a voting system?<\/a><\/td>\n<td>1,161<\/td>\n<td>A link to a blog posting on BBC&#8217;s site.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/23\/778\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Periodic table of mixology<\/a><\/td>\n<td>834<\/td>\n<td>Criticising a photo of a poster.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/24\/1877\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Langtidsstegning af and<\/a><\/td>\n<td>800<\/td>\n<td>A recipe for Danish Christmas duck.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/30\/1808\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Where can I buy food-grade caustic soda?<\/a><\/td>\n<td>754<\/td>\n<td>Trying to find a crucial German ingredient.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what to conclude from this.  I clearly should write more on culinary topics and less about linguistics if these numbers are to be believed, but I can&#8217;t help thinking that many of these are simply popular because people stumble upon them in Google searches, not because they&#8217;re really that interesting and well-written.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t my article about <a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/06\/3059\/\">changing England&#8217;s borders<\/a> more provocative, the one about <a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/3249\/\">L\u00fcnm\u00f2n<\/a> funnier, and this one about <a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/06\/3148\/\">how to play Danish Monopoly (Matador)<\/a> more informative than either of the more popular ones?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a look at my most popular blog postings: Blog posting Views Comment How to make business cards in LaTeX 5,004 A very useful posting for people wanting to make their own business cards using LaTeX. Bj\u00f8rnebanden er hunde! 2,476 Just pointing out that the Beagle Boys in Danish are called the &#8220;Bear Gang&#8221;, which is a bit odd given that they clearly aren&#8217;t depicted as bears. Hvilke partier er t\u00e6ttest p\u00e5 hinanden? 2,385 A Danish political analysis. More about pizza ovens 1,350 Discussing what kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}