One thing I don’t really like about blogs is that the old content gets shoved out of view. This is okay if the old content is time-sensitive, but otherwise, that isn’t always desirable.

Because quite a few (but not all) of my posts are NOT time-sensitive, I’ve decided to start posting some lists of past posts.

So, as a little something for this blog’s “first birthday,” here is the list of the Top 5 most popular posts (based on how many visits the posts have received) in this blog’s first year of existence. Enjoy! :-)

  1. Lifecycle of Innovation
    (posted July 25th, 2005)
  2. Visual Studio 2005 Express: Free Forever
    (posted May 13th, 2006)
  3. The Mystery of the Orange Light, Part 1
    (posted October 26th, 2005)
  4. The Mystery of the Orange Light, Part 2
    (posted November 11th, 2005)
  5. Vista Beta 2 Access Not Shut Off After All?
    (posted July 8th, 2006)

What I find amazing is that despite the fact that the “Vista Beta 2 Access Not Shut Off After All?” post is only about 10 days old, it has still managed to skyrocket into the top 5 posts, on par with the popular Mystery of the Orange Light posts. (Though note that because this list is list three days late, due to the fact that I was out of town recently, and therefore because this list takes into account visits from those three days, it’s possible that three days ago the post wouldn’t have made the top 5.)

I was also puzzled as to why the “Lifecycle of Innovation” post was getting so many visits. I finally figured out that apparantly the post ranks high in image search results for “innovation.” When I posted that post, I had no idea how popular it would turn out to be.

Well, with blogging, you never know…