Friday, June 29, 2018

The back catalog for the seventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News


It's the final Flashback Friday of June 2018, so it's time to post the final retrospective of the seventh year of this blog.  As I wrote in Pins, comments, shares, and likes for the seventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News, it's about the back catalog.

As I wrote in Update to 'Suit against John Oliver and HBO dismissed,' top post for the seventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News, only two entries from the all-time top ten as of March 20, 2017 remained in the top ten as of March 20, 2018.  They were also the most read posts of the past two years.
The displacement of a previous year's popular post is emblematic of the kind of year it's been, as only two posts remain from last year's top ten.  They are Last Week Tonight examines Clinton and Trump foundations after winning three Emmy Awards from September 27, 2016, the top post for the sixth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News, which shows how popular John Oliver with this blog's readers, and Trump thinks Sanders is the right enemy, the top post of the fifth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News.*  All eight of the other posts in the all-time top ten are new.
Last Week Tonight examines Clinton and Trump foundations after winning three Emmy Awards from September 27, 2016, began the seventh year of the blog as the most read of all time.  It ended the seventh year of this blogging year as the sixth most read of all time.  It is currently the eighth most read entry with 7947 default page views.

Trump thinks Sanders is the right enemy from October 16, 2015 was the second most read entry of all time as of March 20, 2017.  It ended the seventh year of this blog in ninth place of all time with 7072 default page views.  Seeker explains how television entertainment can shape our political opinions from May 31, 2018 passed "Trump thinks Sanders is the right enemy" with 7072 page views to enter the all-time top ten about 7:00 P.M. on June 3, 2018.  Sic transit gloria mundi.

Follow over the jump for five entries from the back catalog that became top post during the seventh year of this blog and which I've already examined.

I described the most read entry from the back catalog in Update to 'Doctors to Congress: Fund gun violence research at the CDC and NIH,' the third most read entry of the seventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News.
The second most read entry of the seventh year of the blog was Doctors to Congress: Fund gun violence research at the CDC and NIH, posted December 3, 2015.  It ended the blogging year with 10,400 raw page views total, 10,071 according to the default counter.  It earned 8,928 raw page views during the seventh year of the blog.  It was the first entry to earn more than 10,000 page views over its lifespan and was the number one post between October 8, 2017 and December 2, 2017, when Vox explains how proportional representation can solve gerrymandering and help minor parties passed it to become number one, earning the post the Revenge of the Back Catalog trophy for the blogging year just ended.
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This is not the first time this entry rose into the top ten.  It did so in 2015, a story I told in Doctors for the fifth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News.
The sixth most read entry of the fifth year of the blog was Doctors to Congress: Fund gun violence research at the CDC and NIH.  I'll be a good environmentalist and recycle the explanation of how it earned that status from Monthly Meta for December 2015.
The pattern continued with "Doctors to Congress: Fund gun violence research at the CDC and NIH" from December 3rd, which was the second most popular entry shared at the Coffee Party USA's Facebook page and the second most read for December.  It earned 1261 page views by the end of the month, 1274 according to the raw counter.  It ended the fifth year of the blog as sixth most read entry for that blogging year and ninth in the history of the blog with 1266 page views, 1309 from the raw counter.  It's now in 10th all time.
It has now fallen out of the top ten, being supplanted by Slow drip of Flint Water Crisis erodes Rick Snyder's approval, which has itself since been pushed out by John Oliver and FiveThirtyEight on Tax Day.  Sic transit gloria mundi.
This entry gained a second life after I shared a second time at the Join the Coffee Party Movement Facebook page on October 7, 2017.  Before being shared, it had 1472 total raw views.  It earned 1348 more in the first two hours and a total additional 6541 in the first 24 hours after being shared.  It entered the monthly top ten at 11:40 P.M. on October 7, 2017.  It entered the all time top ten between 10 A.M. and 11 A.M. on October 8, 2017, knocking "2016 could be a good year for minor party candidates" out of the top ten and passing "Federal judge orders Michigan recount to begin today," "'Last Week Tonight With John Oliver' leads variety talk shows at the Primetime Emmy Awards," "The Michigan recount is on!," and "A 51st star for Puerto Rico on Flag Day" in that hour.  It passed "Michigan recount still on as Trump fails to stop it while Schuette still trying" between Noon and 1 P.M. when it also became the most read post of the month.  It then passed "John Oliver on feelings over facts and Colbert on Trumpiness" between 4 and 5 P.M.  It passed "Trump thinks Sanders is the right enemy" to become the second most read of all time between 6 and 7 P.M.  It then passed "Last Week Tonight examines Clinton and Trump foundations after winning three Emmy Awards" at 10:40 P.M. to become number one of all time.  It was mostly responsible for the 8676 page views on October 8, 2017, including peaks of 840 page views per hour between 10 and 11 P.M on the 7th and 1026 per hour the next day after Noon.  It earned 1438 page views the next day, so it was partly responsible for the 6076 page views for the second day it was shared, including a peak of 1516 page views per hour between 10 and 11 P.M on October 8, 2017.  It earned 490 page views the 3rd day.  Not all of that was because of it being shared at the Coffee Party Facebook page.  Between that and my original share at Crazy Eddie's Motie News Facebook page along with all the resulting reshares, I can account for 166 shares.  The total is 507 on FB, so it was shared by a lot of people not connected to me at all!
It's currently the fifth most read entry of all time.

I wrote about the next entry from the back catalog to make the all time top ten in Daylight Saving Time (sucks) for the seventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News.
The fifth most read entry during the seventh year of the blog and the second most read from the back catalog was Spring ahead, although it's probably not good for you from March 12, 2017, which was also the second most read entry during March 2018.  It had 395 raw views before being shared at the Join the Coffee Party Movement Facebook page and earned 8243 page views during March 2017.  That was also the total default page views for the entry over its lifetime, while it had 8638 total raw page views as of March 20, 2018.  This post helped earn 9680 page views to the blog the day it was shared.  That pushed the monthly total over the monthly page goal on March 11, 2018.
This entry is currently the seventh most read post of all time.

Three other posts from before March 20, 2017 made the top 40, if not the top ten.  I described the first in Football and the Super Bowl for the seventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News.
The oldest entry to become a popular post during the seventh year of the blog was Hipcrime Vocab on the Super Bowl from February 3, 2013.   It came in 26th overall with 2933 raw page views last year.  It was also the fifth most read entry during February 2018.  Before being shared at the Join the Coffee Party Movement Facebook page, this post had 427 raw page views.  It earned 1414 default page views in the first two hours and 2688 in the first 24 after being shared.  It ended the blogging year with a total of 3360 raw page views over its history.
I reported on the next entry from the back catalog just two weeks ago in Vox on Spygate updates 'Trump's...vulnerability for conspiracy theories,' a top post for the seventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News.
The 27th most read entry of the seventh year of this blog was Trump's wiretapping claim shows his vulnerability for conspiracy theories from March 6, 2017.*  It finished the blogging year with 3235 total raw page views, 377 of which were earned before March 21, 2017, so 2858 of them belonged to the seventh year.  It was also the second most read entry during April 2017 with 2634 default page views during the month.
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This entry gained readers in two stages.  In the first stage, I shared this entry at the political and anti-Trump groups and communities on Facebook and Google+ during the first week in March.  Infidel 753 also linked to it as his blog.  Those plus persistent web search were enough to earn this entry 349 page views, 377 according to the raw counter, during March, placing it sixth, fifth among entries posted during March.  Before I shared the entry at the Coffee Party Facebook page on April 3rd at 11:00 P.M. E.D.T., it had a total of 357 page views, 394 according to the raw counter.  During the second stage, the entry earned nearly 2500 page views in the first 24 hours after being shared.  It also helped attract 6,723 page views to the blog that day.  The entry maxed out at 2897 page views, 3000 according to the raw counter, on March 5, 2017.
I reported on the last post from the back catalog to reach the top 40 in The Oscars for the seventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News.
Equal pay for equal work at the Oscars posted March 2, 2015 tied for 37th place overall with John Oliver on D.C. Statehood.  It earned 2304 page views during the last month of the seventh year of the blog, all of which were earned by sharing it at the Join the Coffee Party Movement Facebook page.  Those page views also made it the sixth most read entry during March 2018.  It ended the blogging year with 2613 total raw page views during the three years since it was originally posted.
This concludes this series for this year.  I plan on devoting future Flashback Fridays and Throwback Thursdays to retrospectives of top posts of the past two years.  I also plan on posting one last entry for June about Asteroid Day.  Stay tuned.

The top post in this entry is also from the back catalog, so here are links to previous retrospectives about the back catalog.
Previous entries about the top posts of the seventh year of this blog.

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